Friday, June 12, 2009
that's too bad
Another article, this one in the Wall Street Journal, about how the current recession has put the kibosh on the nursing shortage. Subawesome news for new grads like myself, great news for patients. I saw another article to this effect earlier in the Washington Post. Both articles said many nurses were returning to the workforce to alleviate the financial pressure created when a spouse lost a job, and both said this effect of the recession is a band aid on the nursing shortage, which will re-emerge. The WSJ article quoted a study which said the nation will be short a quarter of a million nurses by 2020; a pretty significant deficit in an industry that is meant to employ about two million per year.
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That's unfortunate for someone who's about to graduate from nursing grad school, but take heart- I have a feeling you won't have to worry too much about job security, considering healthcare's stronger resistance to economic decline and the projected continuation of the nursing shortage. But, like you said, the bright side is definitely for the patients!
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