Business leaders have renewed their demand for a review of nurses’ and other public sector pensions, calling for a shift from “unsustainable” final salary schemes.
A report by the CBI says a more affordable system is needed if the “trillion pound burden” on the taxpayer is to be contained.
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Well, it’s hard to not know about the massive shortage of nurses in the USA right now. Even a quick search of any terms like “us nursing shortage 2009″ shows the frankly worrying numbers. Quite simply, there isn’t enough nurses per hospital in the United States.
So what’s the US goverment doing about it? All they can right now. More funding to train nurses, improve the wages and so on. They are also trying to lure more nurses from other countries in to the United States to help fill the positions.
So, I’m interested if any of you have been affected by it at all? Do you work in the USA and feel patient care is suffering, or do you work in a different country and want to become a nurse in the USA? As always feel free to talk about it in length in the forums, which can be accessed via the links at the top and right of the site.