Critical nursing scarcity looming | The Columbus Dispatch - 0 views
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Researchers expect Ohio to be short 32,000 nurses by 2020.
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Kiarra Young on 06 Mar 10This is a good fact to know. Not only does the united states suffer as a whole but individual states suffer independently as well.
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Sunday, December 6, 2009 3:35 AM By Suzanne Hoholik
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There are more than 2.4 million registered nurses in the United States, making it the largest health profession. The average age of an Ohio nurse is 47, and the median age of a nursing faculty member is 51.
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Nursing schools still have waiting lists, but that's because there are not enough faculty members to train future nurses, experts say.
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"It's all very important that we get the funding to educate the faculty in the master's and doctoral programs," she said.
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These include changing the Nurse Education Assistance Loan Program in the state's budget bill this year to forgive student loans of nursing master's students who teach nursing at an Ohio school, Allison Kolodziej, Gov. Ted Strickland's spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail.