The Mythical Nursing Shortage Is "Officialy" Over

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

Even Bloomberg is admitting it. I maintain there has never been a nursin shortage in the 17 years since I first became a nurse, though there were times when jobs were much more available.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-21/nursing-shortage-in-u-s-is-over-temporarily-researchers-find.html

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Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

Where's my job?

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Even Bloomberg is admitting it. I maintain there has never been a nursin shortage in the 17 years since I first became a nurse, though there were times when jobs were much more available.

Nursing Shortage Is Over in U.S. Until Retirement Glut Hits - Bloomberg

"In the early part of this century, many registered nurses were leaving the profession saying they were overworked, underpaid and unable to provide good patient care, according to a 2002 report in the New England Journal of Medicine."

Am quite sure there are many RNs today that will tell you they are overworked, underpaid and unable to provide the sort of patient care they desire. The difference is they are caught between a rock and a hard place with the current economy leaving them few other employment options.

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Thank god someone is finally admitting it!

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bump to keep this post ALIVE, ALIVE, ALIVE!!!!!

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Personally based upon what one is hearing and has read in this and similar media reports, yes sometime in the future there will be an increased need for RNs. When that will occur and what numbers will be needed is another story. Much will depend upon wht the profession looks like in ten or twenty years in particular the role of professional nurses in healthcare.

Will say this things do not look good for those >45 or so considering or already in nursing school. In areas of the country where the RN employment market is tight such newly licensed nurses could face years of unemployment or under employment while the glut works itself out.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

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Am quite sure there are many RNs today that will tell you they are overworked, underpaid and unable to provide the sort of patient care they desire. The difference is they are caught between a rock and a hard place with the current economy leaving them few other employment options.

*** No, the current economy only moved ahead the day when nurses has few other options. The deliberate spreading of the false and self serving" nursing shortage" propaganda, combined with the lobbying for tax payer money to subsidize a great expansion of nursing programs and recruit people who would have never considered nursing had that situation as a goal all along.

The economic crash only allowed those who stand to gain financialy from a glut of nurses to achive that goal sooner than they would have otherwise.

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