Nursing Shortage in the United States

Critical Issue Proposal

Recruitment of Nurses from the Philippines due to the Nursing Shortage in the United States

Our local and national health care systems are facing a nursing shortage of mass proportions. We are now only beginning to understand the loss of necessary talent in the health care industry, specifically nurses, and the impact that such a deficit will have on the quality of health care across the United Sates. The problem is simple-there are not enough nurses to fill our current actual health care needs; there is expected to be an even greater gap as our needs increase. The nurses are aging and fewer people are training in the nursing profession. The nurses are unhappy with many aspects of their career choice. Their workloads are heavy across the board, the hours are long and tiring, they have no support staff, mandatory overtime after an already...