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 con-tinue 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.
B, D, E
Actions noted by Auerbach and colleagues (2007) for addressing the shortage were directed to-ward workforce planning by policymakers. They recommended that initiatives include strategies for engaging high school and college graduates to select nursing as a career, finding ways to in-crease nursing education program capacities, providing incentives for hospitals to continue efforts to retain older RNs, and clarifying how the use of foreign nurses will be addressed. They further noted that, in order to increase educational program capacity, faculty would have to be recruited, developed, and paid an equivalent salary to their hospital RN counterparts.
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