The Nursing Shortage

Harriet R. Feldman, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Dean and Professor at the Lienhard School of Nursing and Chair of the Institutional Review Board at Pace University. She is the Editor of the journal Nursing Leadership Forum. Dr. Feldman has authored more than 60 articles, book chapters, and editorials, is co-author of Nurses in the Political Arena: The Public Face of Nursing, and editor of Strategies for Nursing Leadership and Nursing Leaders Speak Out: Issues and Opinions. She has served in leadership roles in number of professional organizations, including the New York State Nurses Association, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, Nurses Educational Fund, and on the boards of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and Nyack Hospital.

Part 1 The policy front: combating the nursing shortage - Vermont's call to action; tackling the nursing shortage in rural Missouri - linking education and service in a differentiated practice environment; a rural state's response to the nursing shortage - Nevada's story; the shortage of operating room nurses - what AORN is doing about it. Part 2 The education front: the role of nursing schools in addressing the shortage; developing an accelerated BSN programme - the KSU partnership model; a collaborative effort among nurse leaders to address the hospital nursing shortage in Cincinnatti; perceptions of senior baccalaureate nursing students and nurse leaders - a look at elements of success in the workplace. Part 3 The retention front - promoting workplace satisfaction: intensity and challenge as an aspect of work satisfaction in an urban emergency room; power sharing - a strategy for nurse retention; STAT! - a four-step approach to nursing recruitment and retention in a tertiary paediatric setting; responding to ANA's nursing agenda for the future - the recruitment and retention programme at a major medical centre; career development programms at an Iceland hospital.