North American Nursing Shortage |
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| Thursday, 24 January 2008 | |
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Non-life-threatening surgeries will not be carried out and additional beds will remain vacant for minimum three or four months in Capital Health for the reason that there are very few nurses to take care of the patients. Partly, the problem in Canada is that young nurses are migrating to California, Arizona, Florida, Texas or Washington for higher pay, while the problem in U.S.A. is that nursing instructors are going away from nursing schools and coming back to hospitals and private clinics due to higher wages and thus, leaving not too many qualified lecturers to train new nurses at nursing schools . There are not enough nurses at any place to solve nursing shortage in North America. In Canada, to retain more of its nursing graduates, nursing wages must be increased by permitting more private clinics and surgical centers but the solution is not only in a plain way that more private money is required in its system to pay nurses higher wages to keep more of its nursing graduates, but maybe by attracting new members to nursing profession. In previous years, Canadian nursing schools have importantly rises their enrollments and new nurses can graduate with degrees in three years as a substitute for four years. In the past five years, American nursing schools have augmented enrollments by 73 percent. If that direction is sustained, it is calculated that in ten to fifteen years, U.S.A. will be producing all the nurses it requires. Every country must produce its own nursing graduates to supply its own demand. [Via Canada.com ] |
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