Health Care Workforce: Nurses
August 27, 2012 | Toolkit
This toolkit focuses on nursing, the coming shortages, how they might be avoided, and how health reform is contributing to the changing role of nursing.
Nurses
Nursing's bond to patients and link to quality of care are pivotal, as nurses make up more that half of the health care workforce. To improve the quality of hospital care, we must also transform the quality of nursing care at the patient's bedside.
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Rewarding Quality Performance
March 1, 2007 | Report
The Role of Nursing
Putting Nurses in Charge
March 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Between 1996 and 1999, Rutgers University Foundation, New Brunswick, N.J., carried out a project to help define the financial and operational structure necessary for the long-term viability of a nurse-managed primary health care center in Elizabeth, N.J.
Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care
May 15, 2013 | Issue Brief
Nurse practitioners can help meet the growing need for primary care, if state and federal policy-makers remove barriers that limit their ability to provide, and get paid for, a wider range of preventive services and acute care.
Nursing Home Patients Fare Better with On-Staff Primary Care Providers
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Health Research in Albany, N.Y., conducted a three-year demonstration project that examined differences in cost and quality among four alternative staffing models allowed under Medicaid for delivering primary care services in nursing homes.
More Doctors are Needed in America's Inner Cities
February 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Investigators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School examined changes in the availability of physicians in U.S. urban areas from 1980 to 1997.