Год выпуска: 2008 Издательство: Страниц: 400 ISBN: 0826133339
Описание
The shortage of nurses and nurse educators has threatened both health care delivery and patient care. Ineffective and poorly researched policy has led to serious problems with the recruitment, education, and retention of nurses, and has remained one of tain factors leading to the wide gap in the nursing supply. In this comprehensive guidebook, experienced policy researchers address how to manage the multiple challenges in successfully making the transition from research to policy. Key features:Includes powerful but simple research designs to help nursing workforce centers address the multiple challenges in nursing recruitment, education, and retention Outlines how nursing workforce centers are combating the nursing shortage and researching etive methods to forecast nurse supply and demand Examines nursing education issues such as the faculty shortage, recruitment of high school students, and the role of clinical simulation in teaching