What factor has had the greatest impact on the current nursing shortage?
1.
Later age of women having children
2.
Fewer women being born
3.
Overall unemployment rate
4.
More employment options for women
ANS: 4
One reality of the nursing shortage is that the 21st century woman has more employment options than women had previously.
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