Identify two trends in the supply and demand of health care workers
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: By 2020 there will be a shortage of 1 million nurses in the United States. While 50% of nurses currently work in hospitals, the demand in other care settings is growing. The number of new RNs graduating from college is not sufficient to replace all of the retiring nurses. To meet the demand, new nursing graduates would have to increase by 90% per year. As the demand for RNs increases worldwide, there will be fewer foreign-trained nurses to work in the United States. Labor shortages are also predicted for other types of health care professionals, including doctors. By 2020, there will be at least 100,000 fewer doctors in the workplace than today. There is already a shortage of geriatric doctors, and the supply is declining. Even if the number stabilizes, there will be a shortage of 25,000 geriatricians by 2025.
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