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Elected Officials, Nursing Leaders, and more... |
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More than 60 South Florida Nursing Leaders attended an Advocacy Conference organized by the Nursing Consortium of South Florida and the South Florida Organization of Nurse Executives at the Broward College North Campus Omni Auditorium on the 19th of June. The six hour program featured a statistical update on the nursing shortage by Mary Lou Brunell of the Florida Center for Nursing, and presentations by one of the state's premier lobbyists Bob Levy, FHA's Martha DeCastro, and four State Representatives; Yolly Roberson, Luis Garcia, Juan Zapata, and Estevan Bovo.
"Programs such as these are more important than ever," explained Consortium President-elect Evelyn Gonzalez Morlote, RN, MSN, LHCRM. "The effects of the current economy on the supply and demand for nursing services has provided unique challenges to those of us engaged in the work of positioning South Florida to best weather the nursing shortage storm brewing beyond the horizon. We are seeing increasing news heralding the end of the nursing shortage making it all the more difficult to convince community leaders that strategic and sustained activity is needed to avoid the disastrous consequences of a 285,000 registered nurse shortage in the US (52,200 in Florida) by 2020. The short term near balance of supply and demand is not sustainable and too few understand that a 285,000 nurse shortage is nearly three times larger than any deficit experienced in the United States over the past 50 years. Beyond 2020 things are projected to get even worse! By 2025, that shortage is projected to expand to 500,000 FTE RNs, so it is more important than ever for nurses to be well informed and actively advocating for greater public and private sector investment that supports the growth and quality of the nurse workforce."
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Posted on Monday, June 08 @ 17:52:19 EDT by kguske |
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