Rural Nurse Practitioner Workforce: Rural Registered Nurses as a Potential Untapped Resource.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine rural nurse practitioner (NP) workforce issues and explore practicing rural registered nurses (RNs) as a potential untapped resource to address the rural primary care provider shortage. Sample: A purposeful and snowball sample of rural RNs, rural nurse p...
| Published in: | Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Health Care Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 52 - 82 |
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Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Healthcare
2024
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