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Date:6/12/2009

tates will face a significant shortage of nurses by 2025. Hospitals and policy-makers should use this respite to strengthen the nursing workforce by addressing issues associated with an increasingly older workforce. Policy-makers should also implement policies to increase the capacity of nursing education programs to avoid future imbalances in the nurse labor market.

Expanding the Capacity of Nursing Education

Brenda L. Cleary, Angela Barron McBride, Margaret L. McClure and Susan C. Reinhard

The U.S. must ensure a sufficient nursing workforce to care for a more diverse and aging population. To do this, we must change the way nursing education is delivered so that vacant faculty positions are filled and other educational resources bolstered.

Addressing the Nursing Workforce: A Critical Element for Health Reform

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey and John Rother

For health reform to be effective and the U.S. economy to recover, we must build, empower, and deploy a 21st century health care nursing workforce. Nurses will deliver, coordinate and direct care in hospitals and community-based and home settings, but these nurses will be in short supply unless we address the nursing and nurse faculty shortages.

Nursing: A Key to Patient Satisfaction

Ann Kutney Lee, Matthew D. McHugh, Douglas M. Sloane, Jeannie P. Cimiotti, Linda Flynn, Donna Felber Neff and Linda H. Aiken

Patients' reports of satisfaction are higher in hospitals where nurses practice in better work environments or with more favorable patient-to-nurse ratios. Improving nurses' work environments, including nurse staffing, may improve patients' experiences and their quality of care.

The Role of Nurses in Improved Hospital Quality and Efficiency: Real-World Results

Jack Needleman and Susan Hassmiller

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