Long, Mark C; Goldfarb, Marsha G.; Goldfarb, Robert S - In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy 11 (2008) 2
suggest three new explanations for perceived nursing shortages. The first model focuses on hospitals hiring both permanent … staff nurses and temporary contract nurses. It shows that hiring both classes of nurses can represent optimizing behavior …, and that an interesting kind of perceived nursing shortage results from this dual hiring. The second model posits two …