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Amid a raging pandemic, the US faces a nursing shortage. Can we close the gap?

  • Written by Rayna M Letourneau, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
Amid a raging pandemic, the US faces a nursing shortage. Can we close the gap?American Nurses Association, CC BY

With a sharp increase in U.S. COVID-19 cases this fall and hospitals nearing capacity in parts of the Midwest and West, health care workers nationwide are scrambling to save lives – at great personal risk.

But the extraordinary number of people flooding U.S. hospitals has shined a spotlight on another...

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