Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
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Contact Information
Peter I. Buerhaus
415 Godchaux Hall
461 21st Avenue
Nashville, TN 37240
Phone: 615-343-7618
  

Selected Publications

Peter I. Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN

  1. Buerhaus, P. (1991). Economic determinants of the annual number of hours worked by Registered nurses. Medical Care; 29(12):1181-1195.

  2. Buerhaus, P. (1991). Dynamic Shortages of registered nurses. Nursing Economic$; (5):317-328.

  3. Buerhaus, P. (1993). Effects of RN wages and non-wage income on the performance of the hospital employed RN labor market. Nursing Economic$; 11(3):129-135.

  4. Buerhaus, P. (1994). Economics of managed competition and consequences to nurses: Part I. Nursing Economic$, 12(1):10-17; Part II. Nursing Economic$,12(2): 75-80, 106.

  5. Buerhaus, P. (1994). Capitalizing on the recession's effect on hospital RN shortages. Hospital & Health Services Administration; 39(1): 47-62.

  6. Buerhaus, P. (1994). Economics of managed competition and consequences to nurses: Part II. Nursing Economic$; 12(2): 75-80, 106.

  7. Buerhaus, P. (1994). Price controls, health care reform, and new RN shortages. Nursing Economic$, 12(6): 309-317.

  8. Buerhaus, P. (1995). Economics and reform: Forces affecting nurse staffing Nursing Policy Forum, 1(2): 8-14.

  9. Buerhaus, P. (1995). Pressures building in the hospital employed RN labor market, Nursing Economic$, 13(3): 137-141.

  10. Buerhaus P. & Staiger D. (1996). Managed care and the nurse workforce. Journal of the American Medical Association, 276(18):1487-1493.

  11. Buerhaus P. (1997). What is the harm in imposing mandatory hospital nurse staffing regulations? Nursing Economic$, 15:66-72.

  12. Buerhaus P. & Staiger D. (1997). Future of the nurse labor market in the view of health executives in high managed care states. IMAGE: Journal of Nursing Scholarship; 29:313-318.

  13. Buerhaus, P. (1998). Is another RN shortage looming? Nursing Outlook; 46(3):103-108.

  14. Buerhaus, P. & Staiger, D. (1999) Trouble in the nurse labor market? Recent trends and future outlook. Health Affairs; 18(1):214-222.

  15. Buerhaus, P. & Auerbach, D. (1999). Slow growth in the number of minority RNs in the United States. IMAGE: J Nur Schol, 31(2): 179-183.

  16. Buerhaus, P. (1999). Lucian Leape on the Causes and Prevention of Errors and Adverse Events in Health Care. IMAGE: J Nur Schol; 31(3): 281-286.

  17. Buerhaus, P. & Needleman, J. (2000). Policy implication of research on nurse staffing and quality of care. Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice, 1(1): 5-16.

  18. Buerhaus, P., Staiger, D. & Auerbach, D. (2000) Implications of a rapidly aging registered nurse workforce. JAMA, 283(22): 2948-2954.

  19. Buerhaus, P., Staiger, D. & Auerbach, D. (2000). Why are shortages of hospital registered nurses concentrated in specialty care units? Nur Economic$, May/June, 19(3): 111-116.

  20. Auerbach, D, Buerhaus, P. & Staiger, D. (2000). Associate degree graduates and the rapidly aging registered nurse workforce. Nursing Economic$, July/Aug 18(4); 178-184.

  21. Staiger, D., Auerbach, D. & Buerhaus, P. (2000). Expanding Career Opportunities for Women and the Declining Interest in Nursing as a Career. Nursing Economic$, Sept/Oct 18(5); 230-236.

  22. Buerhaus, P., Staiger, D. & Auerbach, D. (2000). Policy Responses to an Aging Registered Nurse Workforce. Nursing Economic$. Nov/Dec 18(6); 278-284

  23. Buerhaus, P., Needleman, J., Mattke, S. & Stewart, M. (2002). Strengthening hospital nursing. Health Affairs, 21(5), 123-132.

  24. Needleman, J., Buerhaus, P., Mattke, S., Stewart, M. & Zelevinsky, K. (2002). Nurse staffing and quality of care in hospitals in the United States. The New England Journal of Medicine, 346(22), 1715 -1722.

  25. Buerhaus, P., Staiger, D. & Auerbach, D. (2003). Is the current shortage of hospital nurses ending? Emerging trends in employment and earnings of registered nurses. Health Affairs, Nov-Dec., 22(6), 191-198.

  26. Mattke, S., Needleman, J., Buerhaus, P., Stewart, M. & Zelevinsky, M. (2004). Evaluating the role of patient sample definitions for quality indicators sensitive to nurse staffing patterns. Medical Care, 44(2 Suppl), II-21-33.

  27. Buerhaus, P. (in press). Lucian Leape and patient safety in U.S. hospitals. Journal of Nursing Scholarship.

  28. Buerhaus, P., Donelan, K., Norman L. & Dittus, R. (in press). Nursing students' perceptions of a career in nursing and impact of a national campaign designed to attract people into the nursing profession. Journal of Professional Nursing.

  29. Buerhaus, P., Staiger, D. & Auerbach, D. (in press). New signs of a strengthening nurse labor market? Health Affairs.