Academic sources notes:US nurses call for urgent healthcare reform as new president takes office.

 

Title: US nurses call for urgent healthcare reform as new president takes office. http://0-web.ebscohost.com.janus.uoregon.edu/ehost/detail?vid=9&hid=114&sid=6f3796cc-1b05-4265-88d3-15856dc9721f%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JmxvZ2lucGFnZT1sb2dpbi5hc3Amc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#db=aph&AN=36449138#db=aph&AN=36449138

Summary: An overworked and understaffed nursing workforce seeks a workforce agenda including unionization.

Topic: http://cdeross5150.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/policy-question/
Category: academic 
What is It?: text, professional journal article
Publication Information: Nursing Standard, January 14 2009. / vol. 23/ no. 19, RCN Publishing Company
Author: Petra Kendall-Raynor
Location: http://0-web.ebscohost.com.janus.uoregon.edu/ehost/detail?vid=9&hid=114&sid=6f3796cc-1b05-4265-88d3-15856dc9721f%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JmxvZ2lucGFnZT1sb2dpbi5hc3Amc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#db=aph&AN=36449138#db=aph&AN=36449138
Support: Association of Academic Health Centers; Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Sandy Summers, executive director of lobbying organization The Truth About Nursing; Ann Converso, United American Nurses president, ; Employee Free Choice Act

Audience and Agenda: This is the professional journal of the Royal College of Nursing. It is produced for individuals in the field of medicine.

Usefulness: This article highlights the problems that nurses and the health system are facing. They believe that that Obama’s promises of reform will help to relieve them.

 

 

 

 

 

Works cited:
http://nursingstandard.rcnpublishing.co.uk/global/contact/

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