Sep
12
The low number of nurses in the US is causing a nursing shortage that could have disastrous consequences, according to a study in the Wall Street Journal.
According to the Journal article, "Faculty shortages and inadequate facilities have prevented nursing programs from expanding enrollment. When growers can’t find field hands, food rots and businesses lose money. But when hospitals can’t find nurses, patient care suffers.
"The long-term solution here is to increase nursing faculty and teaching facilities. But in the short run, Congress could help enormously by easing the limit on foreign nurses allowed entry to the US. More such green cards are needed now, before hospital understaffing contributes to more preventable illness and death."