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July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The documented current and future shortage of registered nurses (RNs) raises significant concerns about increasing the supply of new graduates from nursing degree programs. Using the best estimates available from nationally representative data, this article describes the attrition process form application to nursing school through the first two years of work.
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study analyzes comments from newly registered nurses about their first jobs and discovers that much could be done to reduce turnover and improve these young nurses' experiences.
May 16, 2013 | Journal Article
This study suggests that increasing the scope of nurse practitioners’ duties remains controversial.
April 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article addresses the issue of knowledge loss within the nursing workforce. If, as older nurses retire, health care organizations cannot retain this type of knowledge in their workforce, patient outcomes will likely suffer.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
In this study, newly-trained nurses reveal several factors that contribute to their unusually high turnover rates in hospitals—mandatory overtime and weak supervisory support.
October 28, 2011 | Story
Vernell DeWitty manages RWJF-funded program that provides financial support to accelerated-degree nursing students from underrepresented backgrounds.
September 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
According to this brief, almost 75 percent of physicians were accepting all or most new Medicare patients, the vast majority of physicians contracted with managed care plans, and slightly fewer than six in 10 physicians provided charity care in 2008.
January 1, 2010 | Toolkit
This product was provided to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation by the grantee organization, Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc.
July 29, 2009 | Issue Brief/Story
Research identifies strategies to retain experienced nurses as nursing shortage looms and nation's health care needs grow.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Pipeline program significantly increased senior dental students' selection of extramural community rotations.