I think there are a couple of things that can be done to help this shortage. First, healthcare officials should go to high schools and hold seminars. At least get the idea of nursing into their minds. Also, hospitals should have an on-site child care center so working nurses have somewhere to leave their kids without paying hundreds of dollars to take them somewhere else. Hospitals could make their nursing schedules as flexible as possible and not force them to work overtime. If the nursing profession can get rid of the label of low paying and extremely stressful then more and more people might consider becoming a nurse. I also saw somewhere that some states are considering nursing school tuition reimbursement policies kind of like the military does with high school students. The hospitals

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