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A Nursing Shortage

Category: Associates Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Health Care and Nursing — Author: James

man and woman doctorsAll over the U.S., the health care industry has reported a shortage in qualified nurses. Several online colleges and universities, such as The University of Phoenix, are trying to help by offering several health care and nursing degrees.

The American Association of College of Nursing said that the in the U.S. alone, there could be a shortage of 340,000 quailified nurses before the year 2020. That is roughly 3 times the current rate.

There are multiple reasons for the trend.

Many veteran nurses are retiring as the reach retirement. Compounding the issue is the fact that people live longer now than ever before, all of which creates a greated need for .

There is also a problem in finding teachers to train new nursing and canidates. 150,000 applicants were turned down for nursing programs because of shortages in qualified nursing educators. Part of this was due to keeping qualified faculty. A recent survey of nursing faculty members reported many work close to 60 hour work weeks, due to the shortage.

Both four-year bachelors degrees and two year associates degrees in the nursing and fields provide a future for strong job outlook.

The estimated that nurses will create the second largest number of among all occupations in the future. In addition to the , many existing positions are expected to open as existing providers retire.


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