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Robust nursing workforce information--chasing an elusive dream? Accurate information on the nursing workforce, and the health workforce generally, is notoriously difficult to come by. Thus planning for future work force needs is an inexact science. But efforts are underway to improve the situation.(NEWS FOCUS)
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
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April 1, 2008
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Media headlines have tracked the nursing shortage for years. Nurses know only too well the reality of the shortage and what it means for patients. There is considerable international research linking fewer nurses with increased patient morbidity and mortality. (1,2)
But how much robust information exists on the current nursing workforce, where those nurses work and their movements in the health sector? How many nurses are going overseas and how many return to nurse here? How many are quitting altogether? What forecasting is available on how many nurses might be needed in the hospital, primary, and aged-care sectors in 2015? What links are there ...
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