Talia Simon is a graduate of nursing at Elmhurst College last May.  Her vision is not to have any difficulty in finding a job, for her it will not take years to find the opportunity in spite of the global nursing scarcity. She was able to submit an application in different hospital but she was not able to get hired in medical centres at Chicago. Also, her former classmates experienced the same thing. Simon said that in last year's class, majority of the people had jobs lined up before they graduated, but this year, only 5 or 6 people out of 52 class population get hired. Vicki Keough, acting Dean of Loyola University Chicago's Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing stated that with the current recession they are certainly considering a decline in openings for new grads.

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's nursing program has grown so fast, it is the only full-service program in south Springfield, Illinois. A settlement program will be starting on the Carbondale campus with the assistance of the U.S. government. In 2003, the students of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's school of nursing decreased to 400 students. This includes graduate and undergraduate students. According to Nursing Dean Marcia Maurer, the school will open a regional nursing program at Carbondale this year; their aim is to solve the scarcity of nurses in Southern Illinois and rural areas. Maurer stated that classes will be done in both campuses; Edwardsville will be the home base. Carbondale offers pre-nursing courses; but they motivate the students to pursue the nursing-degree.

Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, 35 years old, is a nurse who is a native of the Philippines. She moved to New York in 2001. She started working at Mount Sinai Hospital as an operating nurse in 2004. This Filipina nurse was apparently forced by a hospital to help in a late-term abortion practice in Brooklyn, New York City and she had filed charges against the hospital.  The incident was reported last May 24. The nurse reported that she was threatened by Mount Sinai Hospital. Insubordination and patient-abandonment will be charged to her if she rejects to assist in the abortion method. The hospital also cut her overtime schedule. Cenzon-DeCarlo, is a married mother of a year-old baby, a devout catholic, and niece of a Filipino bishop.

Harford Community College had received $1.2 million grant which will help them to develop their nursing program. A 15-month course was included wherein classes will be done in the evening, every weekend and thru online. The short term course will help the 88 nurses to be prepared by 2014.

An association of area hospitals named Health Services Review Cost Commission gave the grant to deal with the critical nursing scarcity. A pilot program will was launched last May by HCC together with Upper Chesapeake Health. Their goal is to provide weekend studies at its Bel Air campus and evening classes at Accelerated Nursing Program.