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Nurses too few, and there will be even fewer. A crisis is looming

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published April 15, 2025 15:59

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We are educating more and more people in nursing faculties, but the staffing crisis in the profession continues and is even getting worse, or at any rate - will get worse in the next several years. The number of nurses should double if we want to compare ourselves with countries that provide satisfactory health care to patients.

It's bad, it's going to get worse, the nurses' union argues. A report on the demand for nurses, based on official data, was presented Monday. The shortage of nurses is about 160,000 at the moment, and will worsen by another 100,000 in fifteen years.

The report is in line with recent voices of policymakers and experts, who argue that the staffing crunch in the nursing profession is a thing of the past, as interest in the profession is clearly growing, and nurses who abandoned their PWZs and moved on ...

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