• A Message from The Author and Pye as Inspiration
• A.  Intro & Overview: 
• Copyright and Terms of Use
• Glossary of Terms as used in these pages 
• Fact , Hypothesis and Purpose of this Study
• B. Identification of the Alpha Factors Fueling the Shortage
• Chapter One: Magnitude and Scope of the Nursing Shortage The Nursing Shortage Identified by  Fact and Perception 
• Chapter Two:  The For Profit Health Care Industry,  the Managed Care Era, and  Nurses. Overview and Title Page
• Chapter Three: Nursing and Nurses  ; 
• The Environment where Nursing Occurs
• The History of American Nursing, and History of the Shortage
• The Global Nursing Shortage.  Why Foreign Recruitment is Immoral
• Nursing Education, A Legacy of Dischord
• The Image of Nursing
• Chapter Four: Factors fueling the Shortage [Environment and Earnings]
• Chapter Five: The Fight 
• Chapter Six  : Closing

• Copyright and Terms of Use
• A Glossary of Terms found in these pages 
• Facts providing Basis: The  Purpose and Hypothesis of this Study

• Magnitude [Gateway and Title Page] 

A] Our Numbers and Demographics 2000 The Data from the 2000 RN National Survey Gateway Page with links to specific topics 
• Scope  [Gateway and Title Page] 

A] Nurses Early Perception of the Shortage [what they said in survey]
B] What Nurses Experienced in the Work Setting of the 1990s or Why Didn't  They Listen-How the current Crisis Shortage was created
C]Salient Points behind The Numbers [or why the numbers show what they do in a sort of historical context] 
D] What Management says
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• It only feels as Bad as it Is; RN as Endangered Species 

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• Overview and Title Page
• The Powers in Health Care Industry: Identification and Gateway
• The Hospital Organizations and their Lobbyists
• The Hospital CEOs and their Salaries
• see also, Hospitals and Hospital Stats
• Doctors and the American Medical Association
• MCOs: their Profits, Stance, Board composition & CEO Salaries
• HMOs: their Profits, Stance, Board composition & CEO Salaries
• The Conglomerate Hospital & Health Care Facility Chains, 

their Profits, Stance, Board composition & CEO Salaries
• The Pharmaceutical Industry: their Profits, Stance, Board composition & CEO Salaries 
• The pharmaceutical industry's effect on hospitals and  nurses
• The Consultants, the new high tier in Hospital Management. 
• Nurses and Nursing's  relationship with  the Current Powers in the Health Care Industry
• Hospitals: 
• Hospitals and Hospital Stats
• The Ascendancy of For-Profit Health Care
• The Free market system and health care
• The reemergence of physician owned hospitals
• For-Profit Emergence , the Managed Care Era  and the effects on Nursing
The Advent and Ascendancy of For Profit Health Care [1964 on] and
The American Conversion from Non-profit to Corporate [for profit] Hospital Systems
• Hospital Executives and their Salaries
• Hospital Executives of the Largest 
• Hospital Executives of the Largest II
• Case Study: Kaiser Permanente, profits,  and Nurses
• Case Study: Tenet, profits, and Nurses
• The Top Tier Management Elite: The [exorbitantly expensive]  Consulting Firms

• The Environment in which Nursing Occurs [Title and Gateway] 
• History of Nursing Title and Gateway Page
• History of the Nursing Shortage  Post War War II: aaaaaa
• The misnomered Nursing "Glut" of the 90s: Identification, Impact, Evidence
• The Global Nursing Shortage , America's Response, and its impact on the current Crisis shortage with  accomanying page Global RN earnings . 
• Why Shortage Feels Better; It hurts so Good
• The Effect on Hospitals
• The Effect on LongTerm Care
• The Effect in Home Care
• Nursing Education Title Pg and Gateway : A  Legacy  of Dischord
• Our Nursing Professors as Leaders
• Nursing Education's effect on and role with Nurses 
• The Image of Nursing and Nursing Education
• The  Image of Nursing : Introduction and Overview 
• Our Internal Strife. Self Image
• Phenomena: Horizontal Violence and Eating our Young
• Nursing Education, its disarray and effect 
• Public Image
• Management's Image and that impact on Nurses
• Nursing's Unheeded Voice and the impact on image 

CHAPTER FOUR: Factors Fueling the Shortage

• Introduction and Title Page
• Identification of the Alpha Factors
• Earnings: 

The Facts and Dirty Low Down about Why you feel just as poorly paid as in 1992 ,  comments by nurses regarding their salaries , and let's get real. Money DOES matter.
• RN Salaries 1987-2001
• What the Industry Says about RN earnings
• Environment

All about where nurses practice , and why they say they just can't be paid enough till it changes
• Statistical Evidence Regarding Factors
• What Nurses Say
• What Industry Says
• What Nursing Education Says

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Chapter Five: The Conflict

• Say What? 
• What Nurses Say 
• What the Industry Says 
• What Nursing Education Says
• Legislation
• Political and Organizational Efforts
• Professional Organizations
• Lobbying Entities
• Unions 

Chapter Sixt : Closing

• The Alpha Factors
• Solutions 
• Short Term
• Long Term