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New Research Predicts Continuing Nurse Shortage
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Ten years have passed since the current nursing shortage began, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Now a new book by some of the leading researchers in the field predicts that the shortage is only going to get worse, unless some drastic changes are made.
The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends and Implications, by Peter Buerhaus, RN, Ph.D., Douglas Staiger, Ph.D., and David Auerbach, Ph.D., forecasts a significant spike in the looming crisis. It also outlines some strategies that could lessen the blow.
“In about ten years, things are going to get really serious,” said Staiger, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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