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Still Seeking Respect?

Posted 11-10-2009 at 01:43 PM by terri_g

Nurses often cite respect as a key component of retention, job satisfaction, and the delivery of safe patient care. Although as nurses, we want respect, when asked to define the term or describe what respect looks like to us, we are unable to do so.

Several months ago, I invited nurses to participate in the Respect Project’s survey as they work toward developing an operational definition of respect for the profession. You might be interested to know that Dr. Beth Ulrich, one of the...

Tags: nurse, respect

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One Strategy to Support Tomorrow's Nurse Leaders

Posted 10-20-2009 at 04:57 PM by terri_g

Although nurse vacancy rates are currently low (due to the economic recession) and nurses are finding it more difficult to find jobs, we are still facing a severe nursing shortage. According to Peter Buerhaus’ projections, we will continue to experience a shortage of registered nurses reaching 260,000 by 2025.

As our schools of nursing strive to produce new graduates to meet the growing demand, they are stretched to capacity and unable to accommodate all qualified applicants. At last...

Tags: alumni, new graduate, nurse, nurse residency, student

terri_g

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Shortage of nurses and doctors

Posted 04-11-2009 at 02:50 PM by MedCareProvider

We believe at medcareprovider that ---- Putting extra money in different projects ---- is not the ultimate solution to meet the immediate demand of NURSES or DOCTORS.

We need to allow more work visa for foreign nurses while we educate locally to meet the demand for future.

Tags: doctor, h1b visa, nurse, shortage

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