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Volume 13, Issue 1 (1997) Workforce Development: Health Care and Human Services


This special issue of the journal, "Workforce Development: Health Care and Human Services," focuses on a range of problems in the health care and human service fields from a perspective that is, to say the least, frequently neglected in public policy discussion — the perspective of their workforces and the labor organizations that represent them. In many respects, the questions the articles address are a microcosm of the problems that will daunt us in the future, daunt us even more because, in a world of limited choices, denial has a special utility: by allowing us to evoke the unpalatable, it allows us to postpone the inevitable, and in a society that measures the long run in terms of the length of a football season, kicking for safety is invariably preferable to moving the goal posts.

Front Matter

Editor's Notes

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Editor's Note
Padraig O'Malley

Articles

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Foreword
Andrés Torres and James Green

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Nursing: A New Day, A New Way
Lin Zhan and Jane Cloutterback

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Distance Learning in Retrospect
Kathryn C. Cauble, Judith D. Burnett, and S. Suzanne Roche

Back Matter

Editors

Editor
Padraig O'Malley
Copy Editor
Geraldine C. Morse
Design Coordinator
Ruth E. Finn