Yet RN salaries and benefits altogether represent only about 16 percent of total hospital costs. Nevertheless, nurses are a major target of hospital restructuring plans, which in some cases have called for a reduction of 20 to 50 percent in registered nursing staff.
The series is an adaptation of the Longmire mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson. While the story is supposed to take place in northern Wyoming, the series is being filmed in several locations in New Mexico: Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Eagle Nest, and Red River.
For three days, the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce and assorted others attempted to allow visitors to live for a while in Longmire Country. They temporarily changed Buffaloâs name to the fictitious town of Durant, Wyoming where fictitious Longmire has his fictitious Sheriffâs office and invited the stars of the television series to visit.