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Nurse Shortage Replaced By Job Shortage

Nurse Shortage Replaced By Job Shortage
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For years, health planners have lamented a shortage of nursing school graduates and poured funds into job-training programs. Those efforts have been successful, according to a recent survey by the Center for Health Workforce Studies in Albany. But there is an unanticipated snag: Many of the jobs seem to have disappeared.

Though it is seen as a temporary setback, for now the job market for registered nurses has tightened, the survey found.

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