Nurse Leader
Volume 6, Issue 5 , Page 45 , October 2008

Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Challenges of an Aging Nursing Workforce

  • Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC

      Affiliations

    • Rose Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, is director of the Nursing Leadership Institute at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fl, and the Robert W. Johnson executive nurse fellow.

References 

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  2. Delong DW . In: Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce . New York: Oxford University Press; 2004;p. 11–12
  3. Corsa JA . Rethinking traditional methods for measuring intellectual capital . Nurs Admin Q . 2007;31(1):13–16
  4. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  . Wisdom at work: The importance of the older and experienced nurse in the workplace . Available at: http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/wisdomatwork.pdf June 2006; Accessed May 15, 2008.
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  7. MetLife Mature Market Institute  . Searching for the silver bullet: Leading edge solutions for leveraging an aging workforce . Available at: http://www.metlife.com/FileAssets/MMI/MMIStudiesSearchingSilverBullet.pdf November 2007; Accessed June 4, 2008.
  8. Simpson RL . Information technology: Building nursing intellectual capital for the information age . Nurs Admin Q . 2007;31(1):84–88
  9. Weston MJ , Estrada NA , Carrington J . Reaping the benefits from intellectual capital . Nurs Admin Q . 2007;31(1):6–12
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PII: S1541-4612(08)00163-8

doi: 10.1016/j.mnl.2008.07.006

Nurse Leader
Volume 6, Issue 5 , Page 45 , October 2008