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The nurse shortage is one of the most serious threats to quality care facing the healthcare system. This article examines the situation through multiple lenses and suggests that an ecological model of resource conservation and the creation of habitats for healing might be better solutions than traditional economic and business frameworks can offer. These habitats for healing would be the central elements of a renewed, healing healthcare system, allowing the reemergence of the caring and healing environment necessary for attracting and keeping more nurses.
Janet F. Quinn (Tue,) studied this question.