Making Sense of Competing Nursing Shortage Concepts

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-202

  Goldfarb, Marsha G ^a   Goldfarb, Robert S ^b   Long, Mark C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

economic projections; nursing shortages

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKLOAD;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FORECASTING; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MODELS, NURSING; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH DESIGN; WORKLOAD;

EID: 52149095667     PISSN: 15271544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527154408319695     Document Type: Article

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