The nursing shortage : strategies for recruitment and retention in clinical practice and education / Harriet R. Feldman, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldman, Harriet R.

Series:

Springer series on nursing management and leadership.

Springer series on nursing management and leadership

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing services--Administration.

Nursing services.

Manpower planning.

Medical personnel--Supply and demand.

Medical personnel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents an overview of innovative initiatives to combat the nursing shortage that are being pioneered in a number of states, schools of nursing, and health care institutions. Among the strategies described are preceptor and mentoring arrangements, scholarship/work payback agreements, private and public funding initiatives to support the education of future nurses, and service/education partnership models. An international perspective is added by a chapter on initiatives in a hospital in Iceland.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I. The Policy Front; 1. Combating the Nursing Shortage: Vermont's Call to Action; 2. Tackling the Nursing Shortage in Rural Missouri: Linking Education and Service in a Differentiated Practice Environment; 3. A Rural State's Response to the Nursing Shortage: Nevada's Story; 4. The Shortage of Operating Room Nurses: What AORN Is Doing About It; Part II. The Education Front; 5. The Role of Nursing Schools in Addressing the Shortage; 6. Developing an Accelerated BSN Program: The KSU Partnership Model

7. A Collaborative Effort Among Nurse Leaders to Address the Hospital Nursing Shortage in Cincinnati; 8. Perceptions of Senior Baccalaureate Nursing Students and Nurse Leaders: A Look at Elements of Success in the Workplace; Part III. The Retention Front: Promoting Workplace Satisfaction; 9. Intensity and Challenge as an Aspect of Work Satisfaction in an Urban Emergency Room; 10. Power Sharing: A Strategy for Nurse Retention; 11. STAT! A Four-Step Approach to Nursing Recruitment and Retention in a Tertiary Pediatric Setting

12. Responding to ANA's Nursing's Agenda for the Future: Recruitment and Retention Program at a Major Medical Center; 13. Career Development Programs at an Icelandic Hospital; Appendix: Major Reports on the Nursing Shortage; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-81125-4

9786611811259

0-8261-2166-7

OCLC:

476263448