This book presents an overview of innovative initiatives to combat the nursing shortage that are being pioneered in a number of states, schools of nursing, and health care institutions. Among the strategies described are preceptor and mentoring arrangements, scholarship/work payback agreements, private and public funding initiatives to support the education of future nurses, and service/education partnership models. An international perspective is added by a chapter on initiatives in a hospital in Iceland.

Contributors
Preface by Harriet Feldman
Part I: The Policy Front

1. Combating the Nursing Shortage: Vermontís Call to Action, Judith A. Cohen, Mary Val Palumbo, and Betty Rambur
2. Tackling the Nursing Shortage in Rural Missouri: Linking Education and Service in a Differentiated Practice Environment, Susan W. Devaney, Alice F. Kuehn, Ruth J. Jones, and Lynne Ott
3. A Rural Stateís Response to the Nursing Shortage: Nevadaís Story, Julie E. Johnson, Nancy Polatty, and Doreen Begley
4. The Shortage of Operating Room Nurses: What AORN is Doing About it, Suzanne C. Beyea

Part II: The Education Front

5. The Role of Nursing Schools in Addressing the Shortage, Barbara R. Heller and Leslie P. Lichtenberg
6. Developing an Accelerated BSN Program: The KSU Partnership Model, David N. Bennett, Marie N. Bremner, and Richard K. Sowell
7. A Collaborative Effort Among Nurse Leaders to Address the Hospital Nursing Shortage in Cincinnati, Darla Vale, Susan Schmidt, Eugenia Mills, Thomas Shaw, Andrew Lindell, Carolyn Thomas, and Alfred Tuchfarber
8. Perceptions of Senior Baccalaureate Nursing Students and Nurse Leaders: A Look at Elements of Success in the Workplace, Rosanna DeMarco and Jane Aroian

Part III: The Retention Front: Promoting Workplace Satisfaction

9. Intensity and Challenge as an Aspect of Work Satisfaction in an Urban Emergency Room, Bonnie Raingruber and Victoria Ritter
10. Power Sharing: A Strategy for Nurse Retention, Joan Trofino
11. STAT!: A Four-Step Approach to Nursing Recruitment and Retention in a Tertiary Pediatric Setting, Gail Smart and Anne Marie Kotzer
12. Responding to ANAís Nursingís Agenda for the Future: The Recruitment and Retention Program at a Major Medical Center, Christine Henriksen, Richard Williams, Nancy E. Page, and Priscilla Sandford Worral
13. Career Development Programs at an Iceland Hospital, Hrafn Oli Sigurdsson

Appendix: Major Reports on the Nursing Shortage
Index