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Weak economy temporarily eases nursing shortage
Quality Improvement Monitor, May 9, 2008
The sputtering economy prompted some nurses to come out of retirement and others to take on more shifts, according to the Wall Street Journal.
"We are seeing a temporary lessening of the nursing shortage," Jane Llewellyn, vice president of clinical nursing affairs at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, told the paper. But, she says, "as soon as the economy turns up we'll see them staying home again."
Nonetheless, experts still think shortages will increase in the years ahead as the demand for nurses outpaces the number of clinicians entering the field, the Wall Street Journal said. In 2001, 126,000 nursing jobs went unfilled, according to the American Hospital Association.
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