President Barack Obama appointed a 54 year old North Dakota nurse and expert on rural health to accomplish the program of government's community clinics. It was Mary Wakefield, started as a nurse and became a health policy expert. Presently, she directs the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota. She will be guiding a small agency with an important public health mission, the Health Resources and Services Administration or HRSA.

It is an agency which supervises some 7,000 community clinics that serve people with low-income and with no insurance. It also deals with the government's program called Ryan White HIV/AIDS that offers medical care and medications for 530,000 low-income patients. The recently passed profitable incentive bill gives HRSA $2.5 billion for better improved health care facilities and training medical professionals.

According to a new results of survey, Landmark California regulations administer the nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. It resulted to little effect on the quality of patient care, but many nurses oppose with the conclusion. 
According to a non-profit California HealthCare Foundation which conducted the survey, since the guideline was implemented in 2004, most of the country’s procedure in determining the accomplishment of nurse-to-patient ratio program showed no progress. Only an average number of hospital personnel have stayed to deal with pressure ulcers, deep vein thrombosis, pneumonia mortality, and others. These metrics have remained in effect over the last five years.

According to Curtin University, the health of the people of Australia will be at risk if there will be continued recruitment of incompetent nurses from abroad.

Linda Shields conducted a research at Britain's National Health Service. Based from her study, most nurses recruited from United Kingdom were being registered in Australia, in spite of being knowledgeable at a diploma level. It means that some nurses are performing their tasks even they lack training and other requirements.

Although there are hospitals around the country which experience nursing scarcity that is becoming worse, one part of Ohio has nurses putting off retirement and continue with the job. According to Bill Linesch, the Vice-President of human resources for Premier Health Partners, nurses who were affected by lay-offs in other Dayton-area industries are working more hours for their families. On the other hand, others delayed retirement once their 401(k) accounts fell along with the stock market. Just a few years ago at the Premier-run Miami Valley Hospital, the rate of proceeds for registered nurses has crashed to less than 1 percent from more than 10 percent.  Renae Phillips, the center’s chief nurse executive of Children’s Medical Center of Dayton said that the rate was 5.2 percent in current months, down from 6.8 percent of the previous year. She said, 
 People are not as enthusiastic to alter positions. We have a lot of employees whose family members have been affected by the recession. The area was socked in December by the closure of General Motors Corp. plant located in Moraine. The result of this decision was 1,080 jobless persons and affected dozens of area suppliers.  All over the country, nursing schools were able to deploy graduates quickly to sustain the demand for nurses.