Factors contributing to contemporary nursing shortage in Macao

Abstract

There is an urgent need to improve the management of nurses' workloads and to communicate better with frontline nursing staff on issues such as payment and employee benefits, the number of staff on duty and continuing nursing education.

Nursing Challenges in Motivating Nursing Students through Clinical Education: A Grounded Theory Study

“…In agreement with the findings of this study, in the study of Leong, economic issues were part of the dissatisfaction expressed by the interviewees. Concerns were raised about both salary and employee benefits, and one can conclude that policies in these areas are met with some dissatisfaction [24]. Therefore, imagination of imminent future demotivates nursing students.…”

Organizational impact of nurse supply and workload on nurses continuing professional development opportunities: an integrative review

“…, Hughes , Gallagher , Penz et al . , Schweitzer & Krassa , Leong ). Increased workloads including the type and quantity of nursing work, patient to nurse ratios and patient acuity are documented as barriers to CPD (Barriball , Penz et al .…”

“…Two qualitative studies identified a lack of available nurses created an additional difficulty of finding replacement staff for those attending CPD, causing further staffing level concerns (Berridge et al . , Leong ). This has implications for skill mix (Joyce & Cowman ), without adequate backfill nurses in practice face an increased workload and responsibility for patient care and safety (King & McInerney ).…”

Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Self‐care Ability Scale for the Elderly

“…Nurses can give professional care and health education to older people to enhance their quality of life (Yi, Chen, Jia, & Lu, ). However, health and aged care services are unable to meet the increasing demand (Baumann, ; Leong, ; Yun, Jie, & Anli, ). Therefore, identifying and addressing self‐care deficits can support older people to remain at home with minimum support.…”