States that actually have a nursing shortage?

Editorial Team / Admin · Mar 7, 2015

My bet would be that shortages are going to exist in areas where conditions are harsh (think North Dakota in the dead of winter), rural, low paying, and sporificely populated (requiring long drives to get to places like shopping malls, airports, etc.). Many cities have multiple nursing schools pumping out new grad nurses competing for the same jobs, so I don't think urban areas are going to be hurting for nurses. No one state is going to be able to be listed as having a shortage as pretty much every state is likely to have areas of over saturation and areas of shortages.

LittleCandles · Mar 7, 2015

There was an article here (Michigan) that we are at a nursing shortage and our amount of nurses went down (I want to say like 13% and 35% of nurses are about to retire)

Editorial Team / Admin · Mar 7, 2015

There was an article here (Michigan) that we are at a nursing shortage and our amount of nurses went down (I want to say like 13% and 35% of nurses are about to retire)

Is the article assuming those nurses are about to retire or has actually spoken to them and confirmed they are going to retire? While many may be of retirement age, they may have lost a fair amount of their retirement savings when the economy tanked. I work with some nurses who are going to be working for years beyond minimum retirement age because they can no longer afford to retire.

LittleCandles · Mar 7, 2015

Is the article assuming those nurses are about to retire or has actually spoken to them and confirmed they are going to retire? While many may be of retirement age, they may have lost a fair amount of their retirement savings when the economy tanked. I work with some nurses who are going to be working for years beyond minimum retirement age because they can no longer afford to retire.

I don't really know if they talked to them or if they are saying they are over the retirement age. However I do know we do have a nursing shortage and the number of new nurses have gone down a lot recently. I will look and see if I can find the article. It was on the news (so I guess you can judge for yourself how reliable it is) but I believe it.

LittleCandles · Mar 7, 2015

A need for nurses in West Michigan | WOODTV.com

I guess my numbers are off, 3.5 % down but 55% are 55 years or older. They have a link to a survey done.

Call me Al · Mar 7, 2015

I don't know about a shortage but it is not hard getting a nursing job in south east Georgia.