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OJNI

What Rural Nurses Hope to Find on the Internet
by

Robert M Pringle, Jr. MLS

rpringle@wsu.edu
http://nursing.wsu.edu/library/

Table 1 Population, Nurses, and Attendees

Town	Population ^a	No. of nurses ^b	Attendees
Yakima, WA	71,845	446	8
Walla Walla, WA	29,686	398	12
Moscow, ID	21,291	239 ^c	4

^a (U.S. Census Bureau, 2001)

^b [U.S. Census Bureau , 1990 #36] There is no recent count of nurses for Washington; there’s been no funding since 1997 for Washington’s Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission to analyze licensing data by town (Tan-Piazza, 2001).

^c December 2000 (Coley, 2001).