Capital Nursing School University

Capital Nursing School University

Capital Nursing School University

In a Heath Affairs article published in June 2009, "The Recent Surge In Nurse Employment: Causes And Implications," Peter Buerhaus and co-authors David Auerbach and Douglas Staiger make the following observation:

"Registered nurse (RN) employment has increased during the current recession, and we may soon see an end to the decade-long nurse shortage. This would give hospitals welcome relief and an opportunity to strengthen the nurse workforce by addressing issues associated with an increasingly older and foreign-born workforce."

But in 2010 hospitals are not taking full advantage of the "welcome relief" from the nursing shortage to increase or strengthen the nursing workforce. Instead many are helping to repeat a situation described by Moira Herbst in a Business Week article of 6 September, 2007 entitled “Are Nursing Shortages Causing Death?”