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Found at Medscape.com- Nursing Economics article.
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Nursing Career Fulfillment: Statistics and Statements From Registered Nurses

Executive Summary

• While numerous studies have quantified the challenging aspects of the nursing profession today in terms such as vacancy and turnover rates, fewer have truly "qualified" the personal aspects of being a nurse in verbatim terms such as "unmanageable" and "impossible."
• This study attempts to complement existing data with deeper meaning about the complexity and intensity of the nursing experience.
• The survey of nurses (N=801) from Texas addressed issues such as compensation, personal health, and work environment.
• Several themes emerged from the survey including a clear statement that nurses love the "intrinsic rewards of nursing" with equally clear statements about negative aspects of their career.
• Compensation was frequently cited as a dissatisfier with respect to issues like recruitment being valued more than retention, wage compression for bed-side roles, and minimal differentiation for expertise.
• Stressors named by nurses were multi-faceted: paperwork, patient complexity, turnover, and overtime.
• Feedback related to workload was notably intense with comments such as "powerfully overwhelming."

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Thanks. I'll have to go get a copy of this.

llg -- bumping the thread :-)