Toward standardization (part 1): Assessment of state and national nursing workforce data sources

Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 173-183

  Nooney, Jennifer G ^a   Cleary, Brenda L ^b   Moulton, Patricia ^c   Wiebusch, Pamela L ^d   Murray, Jennifer L ^e   Yore, Michelle ^f   Brunell, Mary Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Center to Champion Nursing in America   (United States)

^c North Dakota Area Health Education Center   (United States)

^d Texas Center for Policy Studies   (United States)

^e Tennessee Division of Forestry   (United States)

^f Florida Center for Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

minimum data sets; nursing data; nursing workforce

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANPOWER; NURSING; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; NURSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953041138     PISSN: 15271544     EISSN: 15527468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527154410390521     Document Type: Article

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