MN2020: Impending Nurse Shortage
Channel: Minnesota 2020
Date: 2011-11-28

With the combination of a slowing economy and an aging population, our health care system could feel deep impacts of a nursing shortage.  Fewer students are seeking advanced practice nursing degrees, and retiring instructors are not being replaced fast enough.  Leading educators, nurse advocates, and students are preparing for the future, are our policy makers doing the same?