The nurse shortage. A home care agency perspective.
Certified home care agencies are challenged to meet an increasing demand for services while faced with a predicted severe nursing shortage. Meeting this demand will depend on an agency's ability to recruit and retain a qualified nursing staff. Knowledge of the extent of the nursing shortage, along with information of administrators' perceptions of the problem and activities they have implemented to alleviate a shortage will provide information to meet this new challenge.
Ellenbecker
C H
CH
College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. carol.ellenbecker@umb.edu
Cushman
M J
MJ
D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D018574:Home Care Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce