Social Science Research Network:  Understaffing of nurses in US hospitals is severely impacting the quality of healthcare and is predicted to worsen in future years.  By the year 2020, the nursing workforce is projected to be nearly a million nurses short.  The current nurse pool is retiring and the number of new nurses entering the profession is inadequate.  At the same time an aging baby boomer population will need to be cared for as they reach old age.

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Tags: Boomer Retirement, Foreign Nurses, HEALTHCARE REFORM, international nurses, nurse shortage, u.s. healthcare system

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