Larson J - There often is a correlation between a downturn in the U.S. economy and a slight uptick in the nursing workforce, but it is a temporary one. The problem is that while there may be a lessening, one of the fundamental causes of the nursing shortage is not affected at all. Approximately 40,000 qualified applicants were turned away by nursing school last year. The applicants were turned away not because they were not qualified but because the schools simply did not have enough faculty, classroom or lab space, or clinical sites to meet their needs.
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