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Grant will help professors study nurses’ career plans

Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, March 10, 2008

There are many questions about the nursing shortage: How can hospitals reduce turnover? How can overall job satisfaction be improved? How important is a good relationship with a supervisor? Christine Kovner, a professor in New York University's College of Nursing, is looking for some answers.

Kovner recently received a $4.1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to expand a study of nurses and their career plans in the United States from four to 10 years. Carol Brewer, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, is also a researcher on the project. The study, which will focus on more than 3,000 nurses from 35 states, will look at factors such as workplace experience, autonomy, and overall job satisfaction in determining how nurses decide where to work.

The information from the study is expected to be especially beneficial to employers and educators across the country.

Sources: NYU Washington Square News and Medical News Today.

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