Covering the nursing shortage crisis and emerging trends in nursing education
Friday, January 13, 2006
Nursing School Enrollment Needs 40% Increase to Meet Demands
Recently I ran across this article projecting a shortfall of 800,000 registered nurses (RNs) by the year 2020.
While it's obvious that healthcare facilities are focusing more of their budgets on recruitment of new nurses, the problem lies in the fact that their is a limited number of qualified registered nurses to employ.
Many healthcare workers are seeking RN to BSN and RN to MSN degrees, but are being turned away because there simply aren't enough qualified teachers to fill the demand. Online nursing degrees are helping to fill the gap as we are seeing a new trend towards distance learning for adults. Below is an excerpt from the EndoNurse news item:
"According to research conducted by Peter Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN, from Vanderbilt University, enrollments in nursing programs have to increase by at least 40 percent annually to replace those nurses expected to leave the workforce through retirement."
http://www.endonurse.com/hotnews/5ch1616152570378.html
While it's obvious that healthcare facilities are focusing more of their budgets on recruitment of new nurses, the problem lies in the fact that their is a limited number of qualified registered nurses to employ.
Many healthcare workers are seeking RN to BSN and RN to MSN degrees, but are being turned away because there simply aren't enough qualified teachers to fill the demand. Online nursing degrees are helping to fill the gap as we are seeing a new trend towards distance learning for adults. Below is an excerpt from the EndoNurse news item:
"According to research conducted by Peter Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN, from Vanderbilt University, enrollments in nursing programs have to increase by at least 40 percent annually to replace those nurses expected to leave the workforce through retirement."
http://www.endonurse.com/hotnews/5ch1616152570378.html
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