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Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
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“The United States is in the midst of a nursing shortage: The current nursing work force is aging and retiring, and not enough young people are entering its ranks. Many experts believe that increasing the participation of minorities is a key component in addressing the nursing shortage, yet the nursing work force remains over 90 percent white non-Hispanic. Nursing has yet to draw on the nation’s fast-growing minority youth population - particularly in California, where Latinos are one of the fastest growing and largest minority groups, but comprise only four percent of registered nurses.
TRPI’ s newest report examines possible ways to increase the participation of Latinos in nursing by identifying factors that contribute to the shortage of Latino registered nurses.
For a copy of the full report, click here (PDF).”
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