By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — America could be facing a nursing shortage that will worsen exponentially as the population grows older. The problem: Baby boomers are getting older and will require more care than ever, taxing an already strained nursing system. America has had a nursing shortage for years, said Peter Buerhaus, workforce analyst at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, Tenn. Read More…

Chronic-care facility resorts to desperate measures to ease shortage By Paul Turenne, WINNIPEG SUN St. Amant is facing a “critical shortage” of nurses at its River Road Place residence, and is recruiting so aggressively that it’s now offering to pay nurses to come in and job shadow for a day. River Road Place, a residence in St. Vital that’s home to more than 200 adults and children with developmental disabilities, has about 20 registered nurses on staff, plus a few casuals, but still needs another 15 RNs, said Genevieve Vipond, co-ordinator of health services at River...

Officials hope job shadow strategy will entice nurses to join staff The St. Amant Centre in Winnipeg is offering to pay nurses to job shadow for a day in a new aggressive recruiting strategy. The long-term care facility is facing a critical nursing shortage, operating with only two-thirds the number of nurses it needs, say officials. The centre, a residential and resource facility for Manitobans with disabilities, has advertised for months and tried recruiting both nationally and internationally without much success, said Genevieve Vipond, coordinator of health services. “It’s hard...

By JAMI KINTON • News Journal MANSFIELD — Job growth for registered nurses is expected to jump 23 percent nationwide by 2016, much faster than all other occupations, but the local job market for nurses doesn’t look so rosy. Brittany Hamm won’t graduate from the MedCentral College of Nursing for another six months, but the thought of what happens next already has her nervous. “I’m worried because coming out of school and having loans, I need to find a full-time job,” the 23-year-old Ontario woman said. Read More…

By THE CANADIAN PRESS Premier Ed Stelmach is renewing his government’s promise to train 2,000 nurses within the next two years amid warnings of grim job prospects for nursing graduates in Alberta. The premier used his “Ask Premier Ed” Internet video on health care to encourage nursing students to continue in their programs to fill nursing jobs he expects will be vacated by retiring baby boomers. But this contrasts with an Internet blog by Alberta Health Services chief executive Stephen Duckett, who warns that times will be “tough” for nursing grads in the next couple...

A shortage of nurses is forcing the Western Regional Health Authority to close all seven of Port Saunders’ Health Care Centre’s acute care beds, says the town’s mayor. Mayor Tony Ryan said the centre, located in the western Newfoundland community about 275 kilometres north of Corner Brook, needs nine nurses to keep the beds open, but it had only four Monday. “Well, I guess it’s going to be devastating to a certain degree,” said Ryan. “I mean any acute patient that comes to this facility is going to be ambulanced out or drove out by their own people to either...

Scotland’s largest health board plans to reduce its nursing staff over the next five years in a bid to save £12m. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) said the cut would be achieved through “natural wastage and staff retirement”. It is not yet able to clarify how many posts will be lost from registered nursing and nursing support staff. NHS GGC said the changes would see unqualified support staff trained to take on some lower-level duties currently carried out by nursing staff. The health board’s nurse director, Rosslyn Crocket, told BBC Radio Scotland that the new staffing...

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Carol Schmidt In the midst of the US debates over health care reform, many are examining the health care system of Mexico, claiming that it is far superior to that of the US, and that it is luring thousands of US citizens to Mexico because they can’t afford health care in the US. In some ways those claims are true, and at the same time this publicity is a simplistic politicization of a complex reality. This oversimplification is also being used by those who want to expand US Medicare coverage into Mexico for the benefit of the hundreds of thousands of US citizens who have already moved...

By The Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s Center for Nursing is getting some credit for progress in a new report, but the authors say it’s not achieving its key goal of easing shortages around the state. Legislative auditors found a “significant omission” in the statewide strategic plan developed by the center since its 2004 launch. “It lacks methodologies for identifying what areas of the state have the greater nursing shortages and how the Center intends to allocate its resources to address the shortages in those areas,” the audit report...