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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED198249 AUTHOR: Feldbaum, Eleanor G.; Levitt, Morris J.
TITLE: Public Policy and Planning for Nurse Education and
Practice.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1980
NOTE: 142 p.
ABSTRACT: This report focuses on nursing educational and
practice issues that government officials may have to
address in the near future. The report provides statistical
information on nurses, compares statistics for white and
black nurses, and recommends policies for the future. Data
was gathered for the report during a three-year study of
5,175 registered nurses and 3,942 student nurses. The
report is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 looks at the
supply of nurses and discusses the registered nurses' labor
force participation and work patterns. Chapter 2 addresses
the nurse maldistribution problem. It investigates nurses'
working patterns in the inner city, rural areas, and in
services to the elderly. Chapter 3 discusses the importance
of government intervention for the racial and economic
integration of the nursing corps. Chapter 4 concentrates on
the "1985 Plan" for requiring baccalaureate degrees for all
professional nurses. Chapter 5 discusses the nurses'
collective action movement and their level of support for
unionization and strikes; and the relationships among
personal and educational background, work experience,
career aspirations and orientation, and this support.
Chapter 6 investigates who speaks for the working nurse. It
examines the membership rates in professional associations
and who participates in them. (KC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Blacks-;
Career-Choice; Career-Ladders; Collective-Bargaining;
Desegregation Effects; Employed-Parents;
Employer-Employee-Relationship; Employment-Level;
Employment-Opportunities; Employment Practices;
Employment-Problems; Females-; Full-Time Equivalency;
Income-; Labor-Force; Labor-Relations; Labor
Supply; Males-; Needs-; Nursing-; Part-Time-Employment;
Planning-; Postsecondary-Education; Social-Bias; Strikes-;
Unions-; Whites-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Employment-Patterns; *Futures-of-Society;
*Nurses-; *Nursing-Education; *Professional-Associations;
*Public-Policy
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