Initiatives Recommended by Auerbach and Colleagues (2007) for Addressing the Shortage

question 26

Multiple Choice

Initiatives recommended by Auerbach and colleagues (2007) for addressing the shortage include (select all that apply) :

• A) ensuring competitive salaries for older RNs.
• B) clarifying how the use of foreign nurses will be addressed.
• C) providing incentives for hospitals to continue efforts to recruit new graduate RNs.
• D) strategies for engaging high school and college graduates to select nursing as a career.
• E) faculty being recruited, developed, and paid an equivalent salary to their hospital RN counterparts.

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