For several years, nurses bring a lot of contribution to the healthcare system in the country. In which, they perform several healthcare function in the different medical or healthcare institutions such as assisting the doctors in performing healthcare services to the patients. As well, the nurses will also provide assistance, care, and monitors the conditions of the patients that are confined in the hospitals or other healthcare institutions here in the United States. With several healthcare functions that nurses must do, it is very much alarming to know that the country is experience deterioration in nursing population rate and it is more expected to worsen for the coming years because of the fact that they will be more nurses that will be retiring. As a result for the deterioration of nurses here in the United States, it forces the different healthcare institutions to add the workload of the current nurses in the different healthcare institutions in order to cater the needs of several patients that are confined in the hospitals and to provide assistances to the doctors upon performing their medical functions.
With the overload that nurses are receiving in regards to their job functions, it leads to them to perform a strike on the street in order to express their sentiments over their situations to the government. This video had just presented that scenario of the strike that the some nurses have just conducted in Antioch, Illinois. As the result of that strike, all the more the government had become more alarm over the nursing profession in the country. In that case, the governments here in the Untied States together with the Nursing Association are planning to things out regarding the several concerns in the nursing field. They have agreed to create a nursing campaign through the usage of media access. In which, the real life situations of nurses will be featured and televise in the different television station in the country. As well, part of the program will encourage the youth or young individuals to pursue a nursing program whether a nursing bachelor degree online or a nursing degree from a campus based nursing school.
If there will be more young individuals who will be pursuing a nursing career education program, it could help in lessening the workload of the current nurses. As well, it provides a quality nursing service to the patients and to the healthcare institutions where they employed. Aside of that also, the government are planning to increase the nursing compensation rate and been given additional privileges in order to motivate the nurses to perform their job function well and as well to encourage more young individuals to take up the nursing course program. The government is very much hopeful that this plan out strategy will workout and the nursing concerns especially about nursing shortage will be resolve.