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First Report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Congress

 

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American Hospital Association, “The Hospital Workforce Shortage: Immediate and Future,” AHA Trend Watch, June 2001, 3:2.

Association of Maryland Hospitals and Health Systems, “Growing Workforce Shortages Hit Hospitals,” Health Matters, Summer 2001, 2:3.

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Needleman, J., Buerhaus, P.I., Matke, S., Stewart, M., and Zelevinsky, K., Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes in Hospitals, Harvard School of Public Health, 2001, online available at http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/staffstudy.htm.

Scanlon, W.J., “Nursing Workforce: Recruitment and Retention of Nurses and Nurse Aides Is a Growing Concern,” Testimony before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, U.S. Senate, May 17, 2001, U.S. General Accounting Office, GAO-01-750T.

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Web Sites

Library of Congress Thomas, http://www.thomas.loc.gov

Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, Division of Nursing, http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing

American Association of Colleges of Nursing, http://www.aacn.nche.edu

Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov

Health Care Financing Administration (now Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) http://www.cms.gov

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin (not a U.S. Government Web site)

OregonLive, http://www.oregonlive.com (not a U.S. Government Web site)

South Florida Sun-Sentinel, http://www.sun-sentinel.com (not a U.S. Government Web site)