A Brief Note On AACN Baccalaureate's Nine Essentials

AACN Baccalaureate Essentials
The AACN Baccalaureate has nine essentials, essential number two “Basic organizational and systems leadership for quality care and patient safety” applies to baby boomer nurses retiring and leaving a big gap in the workforce. With baby boomers leaving the workforce, there will be a demand for nurses and the supply of nurses available will be short, young, and inexperienced. This will affect the quality of care and safety of the patient, which is why this issue needs more attention. Working towards preventing this issue needs to start now as nurses can’t wait till it happens. In essential number two it says “Knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety are necessary to provide high quality health care” (AACN, 2008, p.3). Baby boomer nurses will leave important positions like the nurse manager role to be filled by young nurses. These young nurses will lack the knowledge and skills in leadership that a baby boomer nurse has from years of experience. There might be the case where the staff unit is made up of all new grads, how will the young nurse be able to manage the unit? The

The ANA Scope defines a healthy environment as safe, satisfying, and empowering (ANA, 2015). There are factors that can create changes in the workplace that may result as a barrier that prevent the best patient care and health of the nurse. A shortage of nurses can be one of the factors that impedes a healthy environment. Nursing shortages have been linked to increased mortality, staff violence, accidents or injuries, cross infection, and adverse post-op events (McNeil & Sharpe & Benbow, 2012). Staff violence would definitely affect the environment because this would cause a disruption because of the lack of respect in the teamwork that the nurses are supposed to participate in to provide quality