Strengthening Israel’s neonatal intensive care nursing workforce

Israel is experiencing a shortage of both physicians and nurses in a number of specialties, including neonatal intensive care. Inadequate hospital staffing and high patient demand contribute to the blurring of professional scope of practice boundaries between nurses and physicians. Striking similari...

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Autores principales: Hallowell, Sunny G., Medoff-Cooper, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26085922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0020-0
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description Israel is experiencing a shortage of both physicians and nurses in a number of specialties, including neonatal intensive care. Inadequate hospital staffing and high patient demand contribute to the blurring of professional scope of practice boundaries between nurses and physicians. Striking similarities exist between the situation in Israel and the health services landscape in the United States more than three decades ago. This commentary explores changes related to nursing education, scope of practice legislation and hospital staffing learned through the U.S. experience that have the potential to inform health workforce changes in Israel through better nursing care.
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spelling pubmed-44700032015-06-18 Strengthening Israel’s neonatal intensive care nursing workforce Hallowell, Sunny G. Medoff-Cooper, Barbara Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Israel is experiencing a shortage of both physicians and nurses in a number of specialties, including neonatal intensive care. Inadequate hospital staffing and high patient demand contribute to the blurring of professional scope of practice boundaries between nurses and physicians. Striking similarities exist between the situation in Israel and the health services landscape in the United States more than three decades ago. This commentary explores changes related to nursing education, scope of practice legislation and hospital staffing learned through the U.S. experience that have the potential to inform health workforce changes in Israel through better nursing care. BioMed Central 2015-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4470003/ /pubmed/26085922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-015-0020-0 Text en © Hallowell and Medoff-Cooper. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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