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Feb232009
Jobs, and Patients, Go Begging as Nursing Schools Turn Away Applicants
Talk Radio News Service (Admin)
Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, for Talk Radio News Service
Susan Reinhard, AARP's Public Policy Institute, says that we will need as many as a million more nurses that we'll have in 2025. To get there, we'll need twice as many instructors as we have now, but half of current instructors will have been lost to retirement.
The net result is that, as hospitals scramble to hire, about 100,000 potential nursing students were turned away for lack of slots.
"Nursing is a recession-proof job."
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Susan Reinhard, AARP's Public Policy Institute, says that we will need as many as a million more nurses that we'll have in 2025. To get there, we'll need twice as many instructors as we have now, but half of current instructors will have been lost to retirement.
The net result is that, as hospitals scramble to hire, about 100,000 potential nursing students were turned away for lack of slots.
"Nursing is a recession-proof job."
Listen
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