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    Where have all the nurses gone?

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    Authors
    Shields, Linda
    Watson, R.
    Date
    2008
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Shields, Linda and Watson, Roger. 2008. Where have all the nurses gone?. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing 26 (1): pp. 95-101.
    Source Title
    Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing
    Additional URLs
    http://www.ajan.com.au/ajan_26.1.html
    ISSN
    0813-0531
    Faculty
    School of Nursing and Midwifery
    Medical and Health Sciences
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32866
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The aim of this article is to highlight a crisis that has developed in UK nursing. The nursing workforce worldwide is diminishing and the UK nursing workforce is no exception. While steps are being taken in the UK to alleviate the nursing shortage by funding more places in university nursing departments, this initiative is no longer viable due to the financial crisis in the NHS, which funds nursing education. The significant influx of international nurses to the UK is likely to be a short-term solution to a long-term problem as this incipient form of neo-colonialism is seen to deplete developing countries of their nurses, and international nursing bodies condemn it.The outcome of the crisis may well lead to the disappearance of nurses from the UK NHS workforce as they are replaced by the cheaper alternative of health care assistant and technicians. This can only be to the detriment of patients.

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