Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Nurses
Promoting Heart Health in Rural Women
Compares two strategies, Stage Matched Nursing and Community Intervention (SMN+CI) and Community Intervention (CI), to address three cardiovascular behavioral risk factors among rural women: diet, physical activity, and/or smoking. Includes demographic information and pre- and post-intervention physiological measures by behavioral strategy type.
Author(s): Pamela Stewart Fahs, Margaret Pribulick, Ishan Canty Williams, et al.
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 29(3), 248-257
Date: 06/2013
Type: Document
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Compares two strategies, Stage Matched Nursing and Community Intervention (SMN+CI) and Community Intervention (CI), to address three cardiovascular behavioral risk factors among rural women: diet, physical activity, and/or smoking. Includes demographic information and pre- and post-intervention physiological measures by behavioral strategy type.
Author(s): Pamela Stewart Fahs, Margaret Pribulick, Ishan Canty Williams, et al.
Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 29(3), 248-257
Date: 06/2013
Type: Document
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The U.S. Nursing Workforce: Trends in Supply and Education
Analyzes data from a variety of sources to describe trends and the current status of the registered nurse (RN) and licensed practical nurse (LPN) workforces in both rural and urban settings.
Additional links: Data Brief
Date: 04/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Analyzes data from a variety of sources to describe trends and the current status of the registered nurse (RN) and licensed practical nurse (LPN) workforces in both rural and urban settings.
Additional links: Data Brief
Date: 04/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Achieving Health Equity through Nursing Workforce Diversity: Eleventh Report to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Congress
Summarizes progress in nursing workforce diversity over the past 10 years. Highlights Advanced Practice RNs who are independent care providers who often locate in underserved and minority communities, the growth of online nursing education to rural communities, and recruiting and retaining nursing professionals in rural and underserved areas. Mentions rural throughout.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice
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Summarizes progress in nursing workforce diversity over the past 10 years. Highlights Advanced Practice RNs who are independent care providers who often locate in underserved and minority communities, the growth of online nursing education to rural communities, and recruiting and retaining nursing professionals in rural and underserved areas. Mentions rural throughout.
Date: 2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice
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Characteristics of Rural RNs Who Live and Work in Different Communities
Explores individual and community-level factors associated with registered nurses' decisions to commute away from their rural areas of residence for work. Discusses the implications of the findings for recruiting and retaining nurses in rural communities.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Lorella Palazzo, Mark P. Doescher, Patricia Butterfield
Date: 09/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Explores individual and community-level factors associated with registered nurses' decisions to commute away from their rural areas of residence for work. Discusses the implications of the findings for recruiting and retaining nurses in rural communities.
Additional links: Policy Brief
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Lorella Palazzo, Mark P. Doescher, Patricia Butterfield
Date: 09/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Rural Health Workforce Development Program: Providing On-the-Job Training for New Rural Nurses
Describes a 12-week orientation and training sequence for newly graduated rural registered nurses designed to meet the specific needs of the Northwest Kansas Health Alliance network's Critical Access Hospitals.
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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Describes a 12-week orientation and training sequence for newly graduated rural registered nurses designed to meet the specific needs of the Northwest Kansas Health Alliance network's Critical Access Hospitals.
Date: 02/2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
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The Roles of Nurses in Primary Care: Tenth Annual Report to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Congress
Discusses the role of nurses in providing primary care. Highlights the role of nurse practitioners in the delivery of primary care to underserved populations in the U.S., barriers to primary care nursing practice, nursing education, and supporting successful nursing models of primary care.
Date: 2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice
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Discusses the role of nurses in providing primary care. Highlights the role of nurse practitioners in the delivery of primary care to underserved populations in the U.S., barriers to primary care nursing practice, nursing education, and supporting successful nursing models of primary care.
Date: 2012
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice
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The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
Discusses transforming the nursing profession to meet the need for improving health care system. Topics include healthcare workforce, healthcare quality and safety, and health services. Chapters 3 and 4 discuss rural nursing practices and education.
Additional links: Read Online
Date: 2011
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Discusses transforming the nursing profession to meet the need for improving health care system. Topics include healthcare workforce, healthcare quality and safety, and health services. Chapters 3 and 4 discuss rural nursing practices and education.
Additional links: Read Online
Date: 2011
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Nurse Staffing and Rural Hospital Performance Improvement
Examines the impact of nurse staffing on hospital performance improvement, with a comparison of rural and urban hospitals. Analyses the relationship between registered nurse (RN) hours per patient day to quality measure scores for pneumonia, heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and a hospital-wide composite measure.
Author(s): Gestur Davidson, Kathy Belk, Ira Moscovice
Date: 12/2010
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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Examines the impact of nurse staffing on hospital performance improvement, with a comparison of rural and urban hospitals. Analyses the relationship between registered nurse (RN) hours per patient day to quality measure scores for pneumonia, heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and a hospital-wide composite measure.
Author(s): Gestur Davidson, Kathy Belk, Ira Moscovice
Date: 12/2010
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
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The Nurse Work Environment, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Rates in Rural and Urban Nursing Units
Examines hospital characteristics, nursing unit characteristics, the nurse work environment, job satisfaction, and turnover rates in rural and urban nursing units. Based on data from 2003 and 2004.
Author(s): Marianne Baernholdt, Barbara A. Mark
Citation: Journal of Nursing Management, 17(8), 994-1001
Date: 12/2009
Type: Document
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Examines hospital characteristics, nursing unit characteristics, the nurse work environment, job satisfaction, and turnover rates in rural and urban nursing units. Based on data from 2003 and 2004.
Author(s): Marianne Baernholdt, Barbara A. Mark
Citation: Journal of Nursing Management, 17(8), 994-1001
Date: 12/2009
Type: Document
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Threats to the Future Supply of Rural Registered Nurses
Explains how the shortages of registered nurses (RNs) in rural areas may grow as the "baby boom" generation retires and as RNs commute to larger towns and urban areas for work. Presents potential solutions to this foreseen shortage problem.
Date: 04/2009
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Explains how the shortages of registered nurses (RNs) in rural areas may grow as the "baby boom" generation retires and as RNs commute to larger towns and urban areas for work. Presents potential solutions to this foreseen shortage problem.
Date: 04/2009
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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