Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll # 2005-NURSE: Nursing Shortage, United States, 2005

This catalog record includes detailed variable-level descriptions, enabling data discovery and comparison. The data are not archived at ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research) directly for details on obtaining the data. This collection includes variable-level metadata of Poll # 2005-NURSE: Nursing Shortage, a survey from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted by ICR-International Communications Research. Topics covered in this survey include: Rating of quality of health care provided by hospitals Reasons for poor quality hospital care Nursing shortage Recent hospitalization in family Number of nurses working during recent hospitalization Quality of nursing care received during hospitalization Choosing a hospital based on quality of nursing care 'Magnet' hospitals The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092299]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 97 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.