The staff nursing shortage in the United States and around the world is well documented. By the year 2020, the U.S. will face a shortfall of approximately 325,000 nurses. A lesser known issue is the looming shortage of qualified nursing faculty and preceptors.

• The American Association of Colleges of Nursing reported that over 40,000 qualified applicants were turned away from baccalaureate programs in 2007.
  
  
• Seventy-six percent of the nursing schools that did not accept all qualified nursing students did so due to insufficient faculty.
  
  
• As the need for nurses grows in the United States, our own nursing schools will be unable to deliver enough graduates to sustain the nursing workforce at acceptable levels.

The shortage of nurses and nurse educators is a global problem that can be exacerbated by unmanaged international nurse migration. Fortunately, countries like the Philippines have an excess of nurses relative to their home country care needs. Global Scholarship Alliance provides innovative programs to address the nursing shortage in U.S. hospitals in a socially responsible, cost effective manner, while at the same time contributing to the nursing programs and healthcare systems for countries in need.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing Fact Sheet
Updated September 2008

 http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/FactSheets/NursingShortage.htm