Jobs, and Patients, Go Begging as Nursing Schools Turn Away Applicants

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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We Need Nurses, but We’re Cutting Back

Coffee Brown, University of New Mexico, for Talk Radio News Service

John R. Lumpkin, MD, MPH, Sr. VP Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, describes some of the many roles of nurses, then points out that teachers and programs are being cut back, and says this of critical concern.
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New survey shows Clinton is favored among registered nurses

Beth Ulrich, registered nurse and senior vice president of Nursing Economics, says that her survey results indicate that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) received the most favorable ratings by participating RNs on issues related to health care. She also noted that 31 percent of the total vote was comprised of participants who either “don’t know” or don’t believe that any candidate “has the right answer” to solve the nursing shortage in relation to health care reform. (0:32)
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