RNs step up to meet need for geriatric care

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Mar 16 2011

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The Sacramento Bee: Gerontology A New Focus For Registered Nurses
With 75 million baby boomers edging into their years of greatest health care usage - and with the number of geriatrics physicians steadily on the decline - registered nurses are stepping up to fill the need. Doing so requires not only a significant statistical shift in the nursing work force but also a cultural shift in the way patients and medical staff view the delivery of health care (Creamer, 3/15).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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