An Action Plan for Nurse Executives
- 1 January 1992
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
Throughout the 1990s, there will be competition for nursing personnel between acute care, home health care, nursing homes, and public health. The pressures to control costs of providing care will continue to funnel patients from acute care settings into alternate care systems at an increasing rate. Technological advances will support providing an increased amount of care in the patient's home. The nursing shortage will continue past the year 2000. The shortage is not only one of numbers of nursing personnel but one of appropriate qualifications. The shortfall of nurses is estimated to be more than 300,000 in the year 2000 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1990). Clearly, an action plan is indicated to ...Keywords
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