Nursing Leadership in a Rapidly Aging Society: Implications of “The Future of Nursing” Report in Japan by Harue Masaki, Hiroko Nagae, Megumi Teshima, Shigeko Izumi

“…The recent US Institute of Medicine (IOM) report about the future of nursing highlights the areas where nurses can serve, contribute, and move forward to improve health care in the United States. Japanese nursing scholars examined the IOM report for its implications in the Japanese context and explored the future of nursing in Japan. …”
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The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification by Tiffany Denise Joseph

“…This scholarship lacks a framework outlining existing documentation status categories and does not fully answer three research questions I pose in this article: (1) what is the alignment of documentation status categories relative to each other, (2) how does policy (re)configure those categories over time, and (3) how have documentation status categories shaped access to health care in the United States? This article answers those questions and argues that the documentation status continuum (DSC) framework fills these gaps. …”
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