Nursing Shortage Quotes

Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

As Congress focuses on comprehensive health care reform, one thing needs to be clear: We cannot fix health care if we do not address America's nursing shortage.

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even the Blue Dogs in the House have proposed nothing to add to the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase the demand by covering new people.

Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care reform. Let's get health care done - and done right - by ensuring the amount of nurses we need to provide quality care for all.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

We have a workforce crisis across the NHS with around 100,000 vacancies.

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.