Meeting the Challenge of Nursing and the Nation's Health
- 23 October 2002
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 288 (16) , 2040-2041
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.288.16.2040
Abstract
The confluent issues that create the current crisis in nursing in the United States are complex, interrelated, and long-term in their nature. A number of recent studies and reports point to a common set of concerns including an aging professional population, a shrinking cohort of entry-age workers, increasing economic pressure on the hospital care setting (a large cohort of aging baby boomers who will need and demand more hospital-based care), new health care and information technology, changing nature of work in general, new life and work values for workers, and a historical sense of disenfranchisement by the general nursing population from the decision-making process in health care, particularly in the in-patient setting.1-3Keywords
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