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ICHRN Knowledge Library
  • Date
    2012-01-05
  • Title
    The relative geographic immobility of new registered nurses call for new strategies to augment that workforce

  • Journal

  • Publisher
    Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc.
  • Year
    2011
  • Author
    Kovner CT, Corcoran SP & Brewer CS
  • Description
    "Little is known about registered nurses' geographic mobility after they earn their first professional degree and become licensed to practice. Through a cross-sectional mailed survey of newly licensed registered nurses in fifteen states, we found that 52.5 percent work within forty miles of where they attended high school...." (extract from abstract)
  • Categories
    Workforce Assessment, Planning and Policy
  • Keywords
    mobility, rural health, shortage, USA,
  • Link
    http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/30/12/2293.abstract

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