New Research Projects Growing Nursing Shortage

The United States health care system needs to brace for a severe shortage of nurses, according to findings by Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Douglas Staiger, Ph.D., from Dartmouth University, and David Auerbach, Ph.D., of the Congressional Budget Office.”It is a matter of supply and demand in a profession that is the front line of our health care system,” said Buerhaus.

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Filed under: Nursing on April 2nd, 2008