The research was also able to not certain key differences in perception amongst these groups as to thee likely effects of an ongoing nursing shortage, including some major differences in perception between nurses and hospital administrators, and it is suggested that this will serve as a barrier to implementing necessary changes; working to bring expectations of all stakeholders more in line would be ideal, and this research can accomplish this and ground perceptions in empirical evidence. Buerhaus, P. (2011). Nurses Assess the Impact of the Shortage of RNs on Hospitals,

Nurses, and Quality of Patient Care. Sigma Theta Tau Biennial Convention

[conference paper].

In this research, also a survey study that aimed to obtain qualitative results regarding nurse stress and reactions to the nursing shortage but supplemented with relevant quantitative data, the researcher found that the gap between nursing supply and demand was shrinking by the middle of the decade, however there was still a perception of a significant nursing shortage...

Nursing retention outlooks had improved at the same time, with more nurses reporting an intention to remain in the nursing profession than in prior years however with ongoing job stress experienced as a result of the nursing shortage, which was at the time of the research already the longest significant stretch of a nursing shortage ever experienced since the modern nursing profession was solidified. This research seems to suggest that the nursing shortage was at least partially self-exacerbating, with nursing shortages leading to increased decisions to leave the nursing profession due to strain and job stress; this also means that the easing of the nursing shortage can also be self-reinforcing, with an easing of job stress and an increase in the number of nursing hires improving retention rates, which n turn eases job stress, etc. Organizations should make all possible efforts to relieve nursing job stress as a means of directly and indirectly addressing the effects of the nursing shortage and even countering this trend.