Thursday, December 31, 2009

Health Business Blog: Welcoming immigrants and robots to fill the nursing shortage

by David E. Williams of the Health business blog

In Nursing crisis looms as baby boomers age, CNN Money repeats a well-known story: there are unlikely to be enough nurses to take care of people as they age. Nursing schools can’t keep up with the demand and trouble awaits. We’ll face a shortage of 260,000 RNs by 2025, we’re told.

I don’t really believe it’s such a big deal.

There are two good solutions to the problem, and they aren’t mutually exclusive:

1. Increase the recruitment of nurses from abroad
2. Substitute technology for labor


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