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Article Date: 03/08/2009

The U.S. Healthcare System and its Effect on the Nursing Shortage
During a White House meeting in regards to his promised healthcare system overhaul, President Barack Obama stated that the United States may have to import trained foreign nurses due to the vacancy of U.S. nursing jobs. If his plan to raise the number of Americans with access to medical care is successful, that means even more nurses will be needed to help accommodate them. The shortage of nurses threatens the quality of patient care, and almost 50,000 qualified applicants are turned down from nursing schools each year, partly due to week federal financial help and lack of faculty. A nurse with a graduate degree needed to teach can earn more as a practicing nurse - a practicing nurse makes about $82,000, while a teaching nurse makes $68,000. The economic stimulus bill Obama signed last month included $500 to address shortages of health workers, and about $100 million of this could go towards the nursing shortage.

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