rses. It is predicted there will be a shortage of 510,000 nurses by 2010, the time when most baby boomers will be in their 70s and in need of more hospital care.
With such a wide range of professions open to women now, nursing is not an attractive profession. A study by the American Nurses Association in 2001 found that 55 percent of 7,300 nurses surveyed would not recommend the profession to others (Yin, 2002). The mean age of nurses in 2001, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics was 45; the percentage of RNs under 35 dropped to 24 percent; and the percentage of young nurses under 25 was down to three percent. One of every five nurses is planning to leave nursing in the next five years, and half of current nurses have considered leaving within the last two years. Since 1995, the number of nurses sitting for the nation license
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