Nursing ranks grow, but hurdles lie ahead (BizJournals)


A year ago, the projections were dire. By this year, California would need 201,000 nurses to fill hospitals, nursing facilities and home-health organizations, a shortage of 20,000 nurses. Worse still, that estimate was before new laws required hospitals to raise their nurse-to-patient ratio from 1:6 to 1:5 by this January, round the clock.

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