To many, the nursing shortage doesn’t seem so short anymore. In certain parts of the country, hiring freezes, low vacancy rates, and low nurse-to-patient ratios are changing the landscape of healthcare. Not in Arizona.
A study released last week by the Arizona Healthcare Workforce Data Center, a creation of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association, said the state has 681 nurses per 100,000 people, well below the national average of 825 per 100,000. The Arizona RN Shortage: 2007 Results also revealed that the state would need nearly 50,000 new nurses by 2017 to keep up with the population growth.
Strides are being made, however. For example, in 2005, legislation was appropriated $20 million during the next five years to double the capacity of the state’s college and nurse education programs.
Sources: Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association press release and AZCentral.com
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