Nurse Leader
Volume 7, Issue 4 , Pages 46-50 , August 2009

Keeping the Focus on Shortening the Nursing Shortage

  • Anita M. Rivera, RN, BSN

      Affiliations

    • Anita M. Rivera, RN, BSN, is a student at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL.

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PII: S1541-4612(09)00003-2

doi: 10.1016/j.mnl.2009.01.001

Nurse Leader
Volume 7, Issue 4 , Pages 46-50 , August 2009