Registered Nurse Workforce Report

As was stated, the nursing shortage will likely increase due to an aging workforce that will retire in the next five to ten years (King, 2014). Also, nursing schools do not have enough capacity to enroll all the qualified students that want to take up nursing as a professional. The United States Registered Nurse Workforce Report Card and Shortage Forecast researchers recently released a report in which they pointed out 12 states in the country that have a severe nursing shortage-Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and New Mexico- each state was given an ‘F’ criteria (Oliver et al., 2012). In these states, it was found out that there were fewer nursing schools and this meant that there were fewer nurses. The federal governments in these states should assist in opening up new nursing schools in these areas. Also, the retired nurses should be employed to assist in lecturing and training the nursing students.