Executive summary of Secretary's Commission on Nursing Report. Department of Health and Human Services.
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.
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