title: California regonal regstered nurse workforce report card.
abstract: Various reports and opinion papers have offered suggestions to alleviate the national and California RN shortages. The methodology of using the report card concept for comparing the number of RN jobs per 100,000 populations regionally with the national database further highlights the severe shortage of RN's in various regions in California. This report card method may potentially be used as a planning or forecasting tool, as well as a monitoring tool to initiate workforce development strategies and projects, and to evaluate their effectiveness over time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Vernon W H
authors.initials: VW
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Juraschek
authors.forename: Deloras
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002140:California; D004651:Employment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D020380:Needs Assessment; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011156:Population Density; D011158:Population Growth; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data