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States work to avert nurse shortage

September 22, 2008/

A perfect storm of retiring baby boomers, an aging nurse population that’s leaving the profession and too few nursing instructors is setting up a health-care crisis. One report estimates that by 2020, there will be a staggering shortage of nurses — possibly more than 1 million vacancies.

By Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=342467

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