United States had faced a shortage of nurses to staff hospitals and nursing homes for more than a decade. Above 100,000 positions remain unfilled in spite of the encouragement of some who had left the profession to return. If there is no will to attract people to enter the field to let the US nurse-training capacity expand, that number could triple or quadruple by 2025. According to experts, President Barack Obama's aim of escalating health coverage to millions of the uninsured may result to additional obstacles if the supply of nurses can't equip.

The projected need for nurses does not include faculty shortage. After four years, Kim Keech, 23, a single mom and full-time medical office assistant from Southgate, got a sigh of relief because she will be included in the list of nursing program graduates at Henry Ford Community College. "You can finally do what you've wanted to do. Nursing is the only thing that's going to help me support my child", she said. By 2015, Michigan is projected to have 18,000 nursing shortage, this was based in an industry study.

At present, the color-coding issue on nursing uniforms is still unsettled in the medical industry. Various hospitals have already employed the policy but others are still thinking of the other side that merely affect. One of which is the monetary concern. If you want to comply with the above mentioned policy, you have to pay for new Dickies scrubs uniforms.

In health-care field, duties are scheduled in shifting time. To help fight a shortage of above 11,000 registered nurses across Canada, the roles played by health workforce in the delivery of care are now varying. According to the report of Canadian Nurses Association, a loss of 22,000 RNs nationwide by 2022 will happen if nothing is done to give solution to the problem. Diane Doran, deputy director of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit at the University of Toronto's Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, said that they we're predicting major loss in the nursing workforce for the future.