Jee Bora checks patient Edmund O'Hara's heart rate.
Nursing Shortage Story aired: Thursday, January 18, 2007
The U.S. is expected to be short more than 800, 000 nurses when some 80 million baby boomers retire over the next decade. Nurses and hospitals are hoping the new Congress will respond to the shortage with more funding for nursing programs. According to the Department of Labor, nursing is the second fastest growing occupation in the United States and applications to nursing schools are up 40 percent. But in 2005, 147,000 qualified applicants where turned away from these programs because of a shortage of nursing faculty.
We take an indepth look at the nursing shortage and what can be done to remedy it with Mary Jane Williams of the University of Harford and Suzanne Gordon, author of "Nursing Against All Odds."
