More Nursing Shortage Studies / Documents / News......

UCONN Expands Nursing Program: watch channel 3 video regarding Nursing Shortage  *scroll down to items of interest at bottom of page

The NCSBN Board of Directors Voted to Raise the Passing Standard for the NCLEX-PN Examination 12/07

Averting Crisis:  4/07 Ensuring Healthcare for Future Generations in Connecticut

Health Resources and Service Administration  address the Nursing Shortage

American Health Care Association 2007 Report

Americans for Nursing Shortage Relief
Assuring Quality Health Care for the United States: Building and Sustaining an Infrastructure of Qualified Nurses for the Nation Consensus Document

The Practical Nurse Scope of Practice White Paper  Executive Summary 8/05 was written as a recommendation from the April 2004
PN Focus Group that was held at the NCSBN (National Council of State Boards of Nursing) offices in Chicago. This national Focus Group
comprised people with a broad range of experience and knowledge in nursing related disciplines from across the U.S. The NCSBN Board of Directors convened this Focus Group
after discussions about the 2003 LPN/VN Practice Analysis, which prompted the NCSBN Board of irectors to consider whether regulatory boards should re-evaluate the practical
nurse (PN) scope of practice.

Supply, Demand, and Use of Licensed Practical Nurses 11/04
Prepared for the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, Office of Workforce Evaluation and
Quality Assurance by the Center for Health Workforce Distribution Studies, University of California, San Francisco under Grant # 1-U79-HP-00032-01

Research in Action  Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care 3/2004

Nurse Migration: 2004

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