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 ...
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/newspub/crmQtG/2008/3/25/new-research-projects-growing-nursing-shortage

INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSES The nursing shortage in the United States of America: an integrative review of the literature Heather Janiszewski Goodin MScNRN ...
http://www.journalofadvancednursing.com/docs/1365-2648.2003.02722_1.x.pdf

BOLLING AIR FORCE BASE, D.C. -- A shortage of registered nurses across the United States -- including the Air Force -- is considered a major problem or a crisis by more than 65 ...
http://www.airforcemedicine.afms.mil/sg_newswire/feb_02/Nurse_shortage.htm

The nursing shortage in the United States has reached a level where hiring foreign nurses is not just an option but an economic necessity. There are currently more than 126,000 ...
http://www.theolympian.com/109/story/72007.html

Dedicated to aiding those less fortunate ... For years the United States has been facing a critical  shortage of nurses, a trend that threatens to undermine quality medical care ...
http://hafainc.org/Nursing-Program.html

As the United States faces a continuing shortage of nurses, more foreign-educated professionals are relocating to the United States to fill in the gaps.
http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=37718

The prospects for alleviating the nation's increasingly acute shortage of nurses ... Supply and demand), Health care industry (Recruiting) Product: Nurses Location: United States
http://www.allbusiness.com/health-care-social-assistance/123877-1.html

What's driving the nursing shortage? The shortage is caused by a wide range of factors ... Several other countries report problems similar to the United States. The Toronto Star ...
http://www.nursesource.org/facts_shortage.html

There is a nursing shortage in the United States. At Bayada Nurses, we are working tirelessly to minimize the impact of that shortage on our ...
http://www.bayada.com/shortage.shtml

National Nursing Shortage Overview The United States is facing the most profound shortage of nursing professionals in its history. Health care professionals, education leaders and ...
http://www.campaignfornursing.com/press/files/Nursing_Shortage_Overview_0307.pdf

The United States faces a critical shortage of registered nurses, a trend that threatens to undermine quality medical care, government health experts warned Wednesday.
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/02/14/nurse.shortage.02/

We at Bayada Nurses are aware of the nursing shortage in the United States today. We are also very much aware of the additional stress that you as nurses ...
http://www.bayada.com/jobshortage.shtml

HHS Needs Methodology to Identify Facilities with a Critical Shortage of Nurses Registered nurses (RN) are the single largest group of health care providers in the United States, with ...
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07492r.pdf

The shortage of nurses in the United States is a serious and growing problem, with 126,000 nursing positions currently unfilled in U.S. hospitals. 1 Compounding this problem is the ...
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/17/1761

Foreign-educated and foreign-born nurses wishing to work in the United States must obtain a work visa. ... qualified applicants are being turned away because of a shortage of nursing ...
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos083.htm

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12887349?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

The nurse shortage was not only affecting the United States but other countries as well. The shortage of nurses was said to be occurring on a worldwide scale and in the next ...
http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/nurses.html

In the 1990's, a number of factors combined to produce a nursing shortage in the United States and many other nations in the world. (See ICN Report;
http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/faq/nursing_shortage.html

When you need help, you want to know that it?s readily available, but with the current nursing shortage in the United States, this is becoming less and less of a certainty.
http://www.nursingdegreeguide.org/articles/general/nursing_shortage_in_the_united_states/

... there are currently over 2.6 million registered professional nurses (RNs) in the United States ... The nursing shortage has not yet reached a crisis level in New York State and ...
http://www.op.nysed.gov/nurseshortage.htm

There are myriad factors causing and driving the desperate shortage of nurses in the United States and many factors must change in order to solve the problem.
http://healthfieldmedicare.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_dire_united_states_nursing_shortage

Presentations from the Grant Application Technical Assistance Workshops; HRSA nursing programs address the nation's registered nurse shortage by ...
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/

Starting in 2007, the first Baby Boomers turned 60. Soon, 75 million United States citizens will face the inevitable health concerns inherent with aging.
http://healthfieldmedicare.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_desperate_united_states_nursing_shortage

The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends and Implications Peter I. Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN, Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing ...
http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763756840/

Background Brief. Registered nurses (RNs) constitute the largest single healthcare profession in the United States. Since World War II, hospitals in the United States have had to ...
http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?imID=1&parentID=61&id=138

Nurses are integral to healthcare in almost any setting, yet over half of American states do not have sufficient nurses. It appears that the number of nursing school graduates is ...
http://www.nursingshortageinfo.com/

... loan repayment programs, nursing faculty programs, and comprehensive geriatric education. Efforts of some states to address the nursing shortage in United States focused on the ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_shortage

The Nursing Shortage in the United States is a real problem. As of today, there are over 120,000 open positions for registered nurses.
http://www.travelnursesnow.com/nursingjobs/nursingshortage.php

The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends and Implications The shortage of registered nurses in the U.S. could reach as high as 500,000 by 2025 ...
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/shortageresource.htm