Actions for Staffing issues in military health care : mental health providers and VA nursing
Staffing issues in military health care : mental health providers and VA nursing / Ddouglas Parker, editor
- Published
- New York : Novinka, [2015]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : color illustrations
- Additional Creators
- United States. Government Accountability Office and United States. Government Accountability Office
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- Series
- Contents
- Defense health care / United States Government Accountability Office -- VA health care / United States Government Accountability Office.
- Summary
- Mental health providers are essential to the Department of Defense's (DOD) delivery of health care to servicemembers and other beneficiaries. DOD's need for these providers has grown as increasing numbers of servicemembers experience life-threatening combat situations. This led to congressional attention-such as the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010, which included provisions to help DOD increase the number of mental health providers it employs. This book examines how staffing levels changed in response to congressional direction; and how DOD and the military services assess current and future needs f.
- Subject(s)
- United States. Veterans Health Administration—Personnel management
- United States. Veterans Health Administration
- Soldiers—Mental health services—United States
- Veterans—Mental health services—United States
- Nurses—Recruiting
- Nurses—Supply and demand—United States
- Anciens combattants—Services de santé mentale—États-Unis
- Infirmières—Recrutement
- HISTORY—Military—Other
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING—Military Science
- PSYCHOLOGY—Psychotherapy—General
- Nurses—Supply and demand
- Personnel management
- Veterans—Mental health services
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781634829946 (electronic bk.)
1634829948 (electronic bk.)
9781634829939
163482993X (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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