Nursing Shortage
Category: Filipino Nurses, Nurses’ Careers, Posted on March 29th, 2010 by adminNo Comments
According to a recent post, the US has a nationwide nursing shortage due to the existing economic crisis. This prompted some hospitals to thaw what they’ve frozen: hiring.
Since 2005, shortage of nurses has been foreseen to reach up to 260,000 in the entire country. To this end, studies show that the nursing shortage poses a considerably huge threat to the healthcare system of the country. One of the foreseen problems is when the older nurses retire, few if not none will fill in the space that they would leave behind.
Reasons point toward the unstable economy that incites the hospitals to suspend their hiring of nurses and a lack of nursing school graduates. Results of a certain study suggest that at least 50% of nurses in the US are planning to retire between the year 2011 and 2020.
This may be a good news to foreign nurses like Filipinos who have been yearning to work in the said country. One of the measures that authorities of the country may consider is to hire foreign educated nurses to address the shortage.