US Estimates 500,000 Nurses needed between 2016 to 2025 on top of local US nurses

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It has been reported that US Labor Department gave estimates that they will be needing 500,000 more foreign nurses between 2016 until 2025 as there will be millions of elderly American citizens within this period that needs specialized care.

This is on top of the current training for their local nurses which is expected be not enough to attend to the needs of the growing aging population.

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  1. Hospital in the US Confirmed Nursing Shortage Due to Aging Population : Filipino Nurses News - Latest & Hottest News about Pinoy Nurses Worldwide on October 15th, 2008 10:37 pm

    [...] The AACN expects in its report that by 2025, the shortage could reach 500,000 as we earlier reported in this site. Some 30,000 additional nurses should be graduated every year in order to meet this shortage. [...]

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