U.S Health Care-The Nursing Crisis

Studies in hospitals across the nation have concluded that a shortage of nurses has a direct and deleterious impact on patient care. One study on Pennsylvania hospitals found that ôeach additional patient assigned to a nurseÆs workload resulted in a 7 percent increasing in the likelihood that the patient would die within 30 days of admission to the hospitalö (Perez, 2003, 10). An already overworked and aging nursing workforce is not being supported by an incoming younger generation of nurses. Many nursing positions remain unfilled in hospitals across the nation as nursing schools continue to exhibit declining enrollment. Just as this crisis is beginning to have a serious impact on healthcare, over the next few years America

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