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Lois Gerber emphasizes the duties and responsibilities of community health nurses in homes. And Gerber also explains the flexibility and freedom that community health nurses have within the context of their service. When a professional healthcare professional is providing services away from the authoritarian environment of a hospital or clinic, that nurse who serves in a home setting needs to be strong on self-motivation, "self-reliance," and must be "adaptable"

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Recruitment, Hiring, And Retention of Acute Care Nurses The strategy needed for hiring recruiting nurses in acute care units Personnel management constitutes of selection and recruitment. Recruitment is an arduous process of selecting and hiring the appropriate candidate. Recruitment is a part of human resource planning. The aim of the recruitment here is to hire the best qualitative acute care nurses to produce maximum productivity. The process of recruitment and selection is