The nursing workforce challenge: public policy for a dynamic and complex market
Nurses are health care's backbone, spending the most time with patients and adding value within institutional teams of caregivers and in providing ambulatory primary care. Short-term shortages wax and wane as employers seek to hire at accustomed prices. More seriously, the next decade may see more older nurses retiring than new ones entering the workforce, so education needs to be augmented and improved. But no precise estimation method can show how many nurses society 'should' produce. Policy should focus more on nurses' scopes of practice and aligning how they are treated and paid with the v ... Show more
Authors: Bovbjerg, Randall R.; Ormond, Barbara A.; Pindus, Nancy
Published: Washington, District of Columbia, Urban Institute, 2009
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: iii, 34 p.
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