2002 hospital nurse influx was older, foreign-born.(Nursing Shortage)

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Increasing wages and rising unemployment brought an unprecedented 105,000 older and foreign-born registered nurses back into hospitals in 2002, according to research described in the November/December Health Affairs.

But the big jump does not mean hospitals have escaped the persistent nursing shortage that began in 1998, said lead author Peter Buerhaus of Vanderbilt University said at a Nov. 12 briefing. "There is no evidence that the shortage has stopped. There are some places that say it's better, and it's slowed down, but we don't see any evidence yet that...

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