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Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice
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Making Sense of Competing Nursing Shortage Concepts

Marsha G. Goldfarb, PhD

University of Maryland, Baltimore, gldfrb{at}gwu.edu

Robert S. Goldfarb, PhD

George Washington University, Washington, DC

Mark C. Long, PhD

University of Washington, Seattle

Widespread and continuing discussions of nursing shortages frequently involve divergent concepts of shortage that can have differing policy implications. This article explains the shortage concepts used by economists, hospital administrators, and government policy makers. It discusses measurement problems and suggests possible improvements. It then sets forth the divergent policy implications of competing shortage concepts. The article's aim is to promote greater clarity in analyses of nursing shortages and more fruitful conversations among participants who use different notions of shortages.

Key Words: nursing shortages • economic projections

This version was published on August 1, 2008

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, Vol. 9, No. 3, 192-202 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1527154408319695
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