What is the cause for the nursing shortage in the US?
Asked by pixie
Nursing schools are packed and it seems like everyone I know is a nurse. What is causing this problem and why, if there are so many people in school to become nurses, will the shortage just get worse as time goes on? Also, where in the US is this problem the worst?

Best Answer:
Only one-third of qualified nurses remain in the field practicing nursing! Job conditions, poor pay, etc, have long driven qualified nurses from the field. And now that hospitals, nursing homes, etc, find it easy to get cheap help from overseas on visas, wages are declining further, and many qualified people are laid off and replaced with cheap foreign hires. Abolish foreign workers and visas for them, and most nurses would return to jobs where they could make a good wage. Most nurses do love their work. They just want decent working conditions and honest wages.

Greed, because Nurse Association keeps nurse in shortage, so they can get more from bargain table. average RN makes $65K in nation wide, $120K in CA
Answered by TopGun