You understand first-hand how the nursing shortage affects healthcare quality, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction. You want to know what you can do today to improve the situation in your organization. Rx for the Nursing Shortage: A Guidebook can help. It goes beyond theory and into the practical reality of what it takes to recruit and retain the caring professionals you want at your patients' bedside. Written by two nurse executives with more than 50 years of experience between them, this no-nonsense book provides strategies for recruiting and retaining nurses, describes the important roles nurse managers play in nurse employee satisfaction, and highlights the qualities that make an organization attractive to nurses. It also includes important information about legislation related to foreign nurses, nursing education, recruitment, retention, and work-life quality.

Rx for VA's nursing shortage: is there more than one antidote?: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, October 2, 2003.