shortage? here we go again

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stor...-shortage.aspx

"Charlottesville, Virginia - There have been lots of parties this year at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, but Dean Dorrie Fontaine is in no mood to celebrate. So far, eleven professors have retired, a full 25 percent of the whole faculty. The health law is predicted to boost demand for nurses to take care of the newly-insured, especially in primary care. "I need faculty to teach the practitioners that are going to take care of these uninsured," she says. "

"In many places, there is already a nursing shortage and it's expected to get worse. Polly Bednash, head of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, says that while nurses - the oldest group of workers in the country - kept working during the recession, now that the economy is improving, "they are going to leave in droves." "