The Hospital Workforce Shortage: Immediate and Future
TrendWatch, June 2001

The latest threat to America's health care system is not an exotic virous or a sweeping epidemic. Rather it is growing shortage of RNs and other health professionals. With up to 168,000 unfilled positions in hospitals, this issue of TrendWatch looks at the growing workforce shortage and some of the implications for our nation's hospitals.

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