Hospitals say there is a major shortage of nurses in the U.S. Nursing groups say there are plenty of nurses – just not enough nurses willing to work in hospitals under current conditions.
Others believe the problem is not so much a shortage of nurses as it is a shortage of nursing where nursing is needed.
Whether there really is a shortage of nurses, and how to address it, if there is one, depends in large part on the answer to that question.
Learn more about the different perspectives on this question from the Stat article “Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on whom you ask.”