Hospitals around the world has a nursing shortage, and this promises to grow at alarming proportions. Many nurses are retiring, and too few are entering the profession. To compound the problem, within the next 5 to 10 years, over 76 million Nurses are scheduled to retire from the workforce, with only about 44 million Generation X'ers available to pick up the slack. This will soon place unprecedented demands for healthcare services on a system that is already stretched thin. The problem is not limited to hospital nursing. Today, there is also a critical shortage of nursing faculty. As a result, thousands of qualified men and women who want to enter the field are being turned away by the nation's schools of nursing. How to Start a Nursing Agency / How to Start a Healthcare/Medical Recruiting Firmbusiness startup guides are the best solution to this nursing shortage.
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It’s no secret that the United States has a nursing shortage, one that promises to grow to alarming proportions. Too many nurses are retiring, and too few are entering the profession. To compound the problem, within the next 5 to 10 years, over 76 million Baby Boomers are scheduled to retire from the workforce, with only about 44 million Generation X'ers available to pick up the slack. This will soon place unprecedented demands for services on a health system that is already stretched thin.
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Kenya and the rest of East Africa are in desperate need of nurses but can't afford to hire them, resulting in a mass exodus.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published July 10, 2006
NAIROBI, Kenya - Nurse Carolyne Mujibi went to work in Kenya's largest hospital after her father died there - from nursing neglect, she thinks. Too much work, too little pay and an assault by a frustrated patient chipped away at her desire to try to make a difference in Kenya.
She is preparing to leave to go work in the United States, hoping for greater job satisfaction and more material rewards, and joining a brain drain from the developing world to the West that experts worry is only making it harder for Africa to pull itself out of poverty.
Mujibi has spent the past four months studying in preparation for a U.S. nursing certification exam. She hopes to take advantage of proposed U.S. immigration laws that would allow more visas for nurses - part of America's latest strategy to deal with a growing shortage of primary health care providers in its hospitals, nursing homes and other health facilities. European nations experiencing similar shortages also are destinations for skilled Africans.
Mujibi is among thousands of overworked, unemployed and underemployed nurses and other health professionals leaving East Africa's largest economy.
"Poverty is one thing that is pushing us out. ... I felt if I go out there I could be able to pay for my siblings" to get the best education and realize their ambitions, said Mujibi, who lives in single-room home that has space for only a bed, table, chair, suitcases and a pile of utensils.
"I just want to change life for my family," she said.
"One of the main criticisms about migration ... is sometimes the best and the brightest leave," said Dilip Ratha, a World Bank senior economist and expert on the brain drain phenomenon.
"That has implications on the delivery of critical services, especially in the health sector; it has implication also for the intellectual capital that the country needs for its own development," he said. "If the best and brightest leave, the country's brain is leaving in some ways ... and they can't take advantage of their own potential."
When i saw this also in a nursing blog, I also havent thought out how to respond to this shocking news, and I encourage you also to take a look. Its sad at how quickly the U.S. Nursing Shortage crisis is becoming a worldwide issue. continue
