Workplace Issues

Professional Practice

• Nurses’ Quick Reference to Workplace Issues: provides professional nurses with information and tools that will assist in communicating and resolving workplace issues.
• Delegation Decision-Making Grid -
• Professional Liability Insurance
• Salary Surveys
• Updating the Law for the Practice of Nursing (Summer 2006)
• Nursing Shortage
  • Nursing Shortage to Increase as Baby Boomers Age (April 2001)
  • Status of Nursing Supply and Demand in Iowa (2004)
    A Presentation to the Government Oversight Committee
    The adequacy of nurse supply varies throughout the United States, with a general consensus that at the national level there is currently a moderate shortage of registered nurses (RNs). In 2004, the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis in the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), said the current shortage of RNs will continue to grow in severity during the next two decades if current trends prevail, and that some states will face a more severe shortage than others. View complete report [PDF].
  • Center for Health Workforce Planning Reports (2002-2005)
    www.idph.state.ia.us/hpcdp/workforce_planning_reports.asp

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