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Working Conditions and Patient Safety
- Growing concern that poor working conditions in the health care sector is contributing to decreasing patient safety (IOM, 2004).
- An acute nursing shortage that will not be as cyclic as past shortages due to
- Aging workforce
- Aging population and increased demand for nursing services
- Poor working conditions resulting in difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified nursing personnel
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