The supply of registered nurses is expected to grow very little as large numbers of nurses begin to retire or leave work.
By 2020, the U.S. shortage is estimated to be 285,000 full-time nurses and reach 500,000 by 2025.
Inadequate nurse staffing in hospitals is associated with reductions in hospital bed capacity, delays in the timeliness of […]

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THE manager of a care home described by inspectors as the worst they had ever seen was today struck off.
Elderly residents and dementia patients were forced to sleep on mattresses smeared with faeces on the floor of Bamburgh Court in South Shields.
Today, manager Ann Rigby was struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) […]

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A hospital nurse who told a seriously ill woman ‘if you were a dog, you would have been put down’ has been struck off today.Julie Thompson, 44, also threatened to rip off a ward manager’s head during a staff meeting at the University Hospital of North Tees, Stockton.Thompson, a senior staff nurse from Redcar, was […]

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