Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospitals.

This actually, in terms of posting the staffing plans, is about not having the government tell hospitals and nurses how to staff their units. It's about providing the right care, not the same care.

[When compared with other Southeastern states,] we're behind most of them on starting salary, ... Clearly, targeting starting salaries is important because that's who you're trying to bring into the teaching profession.

The hospital will never be healthy for patients if it's not a healthy environment for nurses, where their voices are heard and where they can care for their patients and use the full extent of their knowledge, abilities, and skills. After all, hospitals today have become one big intensive care unit: all patients need intensive caring.

There must be protection for the little people. People working in the ports, the railway drivers, craftsmen, nurses in hospitals, they need somebody in this deregulated Europe that will protect them.

We found that success involved much more than skilled individual doctors and nurses. What distinguished these hospitals was how well they were organized, how teams functioned together, how the culture rewarded quality improvement and how they dealt with setbacks.