Statisticsspeak of our geographic distribution, our vitality as individuals within our environments, our numbers in terms of race, sex, age and education, and our speciel subgrouping in terms of areas of practice in which we are to be found.
Causative Factors speak of the positive and negative components in the environment impacting on our statistics, factors affecting the ability to thrive and identification of predators to our sense of well being
Reproductive rates of the RN as species likewise receive attention, commenting that we do not reproduce a next generation able to flourish and assure the species future, while we also suffer ineptitudes in nurturing our professional young when they are produced. Studies and attempts to address and reverse the factors affecting our reproductive and nurturing indices further support this concept of our profession.
Finally, there are interventionsmeant
to foster growth in, and assure the survival of, the current population
including short and longterm measures directed both at the nurse herself
and meant to improve the individuals longevity, thrivability and reproductive
ability, and the environments in which she is found.
Among the short term
measures is a proliferation of grants and aid for nursing students;
the introduction, and encouragement in migration of, Foreign
nurse species more able to flourish in the current local environments;
the reintroduction of native organisms in the form of : Bonuses and Sign-ons.
Among the long term
measures are educational incentives by and in the local envirnoments
[facilities]; efforts to change how nursing is perceived within and
outside the environment; the ability of the species to exert meaningful
influence on the environment, inclusion of nurse's voices in the
management hegemony; salary adjustments, etc.