| Title | Nursing Shortage: Implications for Quality Health Care |
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| Message | San Diego Business Journal -- The availability and quality of nursing is the cornerstone of health care in any community, including the San Diego region. However, the nation, and California, faces a serious nursing shortage, especially for advanced practice registered nurses, or APRNs. According to Dr. Peter Beurhaus, researcher in nursing trends, the shortage of registered nurses, or RNs, in the U.S. is projected to be 260,000 by 2025. A shortage of this magnitude would be twice as large as any nursing shortage in the U.S. since the 1960s. The California Institute for Nursing and Health Care estimates that California will have an RN shortfall of 116,000 by 2020; California is now 50th in the country in terms of RNs per capita. Unknown to most, a key driver in the nursing shortage is the lack of nurse faculty. (Full Story) |
| Contact | Liz Harman | harman@sandiego.edu | (619) 260-4682 |
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