Below are links to some articles that discuss professional development and related topics.
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January 2005
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Coalition for Arizona RN Education
From the eyes of an economist, the current nursing shortage is more of a supply and demand problem than a classic shortage. Nurses are in high demand because Arizona’s population growth—the second fastest in the nation—has increased the need for healthcare services across the entire healthcare delivery system.
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6/30/2009
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American Nurses Association
Rapid and dynamic changes in health care delivery and policy environments have placed the issues of and quality of care at the center of health care and the nursing profession. The ongoing restructuring of the health care system has resulted in a greater emphasis on cost-cutting measures, leading to a reduction in the numbers of registered nurses (RNs) who provide direct patient care.
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July 21, 2008
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American Health Care Association Department of Research
America’s nursing facilities have been facing a chronic direct-care workforce shortage for more than a decade. In order to measure the extent of the difficulty that nursing facilities are having in retaining and recruiting nursing staff, the American Health Care Association (AHCA) conducted a nursing position survey to examine employment vacancy and turnover in nursing facilities in 2007.
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March 2008
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Allison J. Terry, PhD, MSN, RN
Three issues in addition to the electronic data system were addressed in the survey because of their adjunct potential to impact providers’ roles and licensee requirements: 1) credit allowances (contact hours) for completing continuing education courses or programs; 2) independent study for continuing education credit; and 3) continuing education programs recommended by providers.
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December 2006
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Alabama Workforce
Information compiled consisted of data on currently employed faculty including salary information, data on faculty vacancies, information on student enrollment in each type of nursing education program, data on each program’s determination of theoretical and clinical competence in students, as well as information on programs’ flexibility in scheduling options for students.
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2006
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Wisconsin Hospital Association
The Wisconsin Health Professions Loan Assistance Program (HPLAP) was established to assist rural and underserved communities in recruiting and retaining primary care health and dental professionals.
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2001
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Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Historically, both the state and federal governments have had a role in developing policy to shape the health care workforce. The need for government involvement persists as the private market typically fails to distribute the health workforce to medically underserved and uninsured areas, provide adequate information and analysis on the nature of the workforce, improve the racial and ethnic cultural diversity and cultural competence of the workforce, promote adequate dental health of children, and assess the quality of education and practice.
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October 7, 2008
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Ron Stock MD MA Medical Director The Gerontology Institute at Sacred Heart Medical Center
Challenges to Developing Teams
• Organizational ambivalence
• Variable leadership skills and behaviors
• Time
• Compensation/productivity issues
• Size of unit/practice
• Team members coming and going
•Wide spread absence of effective communication
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