title: Executive summary of Secretary's Commission on Nursing Report. Department of Health and Human Services.
abstract: In December 1987, former DHHS Secretary Otis Bowen, MD, established the Secretary's Commission on Nursing to study widespread reports of a nursing shortage. The following is the Executive Summary of the Commission's Report, which includes recommendations on short- and long-term strategies to enhance the supply of registered nurses.
mesh_terms: D005380:Financing, Government; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services