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Addressing The Nursing Workforce: A Critical Element For Health Reform

John Rother ^1* Risa Lavizzo-Mourey ²

¹ John Rother is executive vice president for policy and strategy at AARP in Washington, D.C.
² Risa Lavizzo-Mourey is president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Abstract

Fundamental health reform is integral to putting the country on the path to economic recovery. These goals--health reform and economic recovery--will not be met unless we build, empower, and deploy a twenty-first-century health care workforce. A reformed health care system must include an adequate supply of well-trained professionals who can deliver care to all Americans. Nurses are at the center of this discussion. It is nurses--of every stripe--who will deliver, coordinate, and direct care in hospitals, clinics, and physicians' offices, and it is these same most necessary nurses who are in short supply. [Health Affairs 28, no. 4 (2009): w620-w624 (published online 12 June 2009; 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w620)]

Key Words: Health Reform, Hospitals, Nurses, Workforce Issues

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