Addressing the nursing shortage.
Support is essential for students and new nurses to develop confidence in their practice (Oermann & Moffitt-Wolf, 1997). Caring, empowerment and team building are essential in helping affirm the choice of nursing as a profession. Students and new nurses will stay in nursing if they are supported (Meissner, 1986). The nursing community needs to nurture, encourage and inspire its members to learn and to grow; nurses need to treat each other with respect and patience. As Moccia (1990) so aptly stated. "The goal of nursing is to enable others so they might enable still others; to nurse, to teach and to learn with each other in caring ways." "What is modeled for nurses today will shape future practice" (Christensen, 1999).
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Eastern Kentucky University, Associate Degree Nursing Program, Richmond, KY, USA.
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Kathy
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Vicki
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D004645:Empathy; D006280:Health Workforce; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007629:Kentucky; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010559:Personnel Management; D011209:Power, Psychological