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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... Show more
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 value they add to patient care.
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Authors: Bovbjerg, Randall R.; Ormond, Barbara A.; Pindus, Nancy

Date: 2009

Geographic subjects: North America; United States

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Subjects: Workforce development; Policy; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more