Indiana Orthopedic Hospital

The new year promises new jobs in the health care industry across the country, but in some places, like Indiana, the shortage of nursing instructors could lead to fewer nurses trained to fill those jobs.

According to NPR, The Office of the top ten list of Labor Statistics 'for high-demand jobs in the coming years includes several in the areas of health: first nurses' aides home health in second place, place staff and carers in the fifth and aides, nurses and aids in ninth place (Ydstie, fourth).

The Times of Northwest Indiana reports: "Amid a national nursing shortage, nursing programs, Indiana has dismissed about 2,500 qualified applicants due to lack of full-time faculty, according to a survey of programs Nursing of the State. The 2008 survey by the Indiana Nursing Workforce Development Coalition said a shortage of teachers to prevent nursing programs to maintain a supply of qualified candidates. With a shortage of 260,000 nurses across the country in 2025, schools are trying to graduate nurses as possible. 30,000 additional nurses need to graduate each year to meet the needs of the nation health care, according to the Council on physician and nurse supply, a national organization of health care leaders. countries, nursing programs have diverted tens of thousands of qualified applicants due to lack of educators limits how much a school can increase enrollment "(Tompkins, third).

Meanwhile, The Boston Globe reports on the experience of a nurse practitioner: "nurse practitioner During a typical day in the bustling town center Kaplan Newton Wellesley Hospital, Judy Walsh while injecting of medicine in the knee of a person to relieve pain in negotiating with insurance companies for tests and drugs covered. As the constant care of the only 'supplier - monitor patient progress from the initial call through the rehabilitation process - Walsh brings style and the medical care to a practice that also includes nine orthopedic surgeons practicing. ... The nurse practitioner role evolved in the mid-1960s in response to a shortage of physicians nationwide. Nurse is a registered nurse with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing and are licensed by the state and national organizations "(Keene, third).