Research Paper on:
Nursing’s Global Implications

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accessibility * Education and research * Conditions in developing nations * Nursing shortage The nursing shortage comes at the bottom of the list  here, but it affects all of the points preceding it. Fewer nurses translates to fewer facilities that can be staffed adequately. Education may be put on the "fast  track" so that students entering nursing programs can fill vacancies more quickly. Conditions in developing nations generally are such that health care is  limited anyway; the nursing shortage only serves to further restrict the availability of health care. Slide 3: Accessibility * Shortage of health care professionals further removes fee-based care from  the greatest number of people. As care becomes more expensive, fewer can afford to seek it. * Rural populations may have no access at all. * War and political  struggles discourage health care organizations from operating in some of the areas of greatest need, such as Ethiopia. A recent conference held in  Ethiopia highlighted the "emerging crisis of health manpower in Africa" (Health worker crises threaten to undermine health improvement in Africa, 2002). It is not only war and poverty that  affect the level of health care available to individuals in sub-Saharan nations, the exodus of qualified health care providers and professionals is further complicating the issue and increasing its desperate  nature. "The situation threatens to defeat the efforts of African governments, private health care providers, NGOs, and donors for health improvement" (Health worker crises threaten to undermine health improvement  in Africa, 2002). Further complicating the issue of exiting existing health care professionals is the fact that current training programs largely are