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Travel nurses offer temporary relief to hospitals short on staff: by 2020, nation's permanent worker shortage is expected to expand to 1 million.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 09-APR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Travel nurses offer temporary relief to hospitals short on staff: by 2020, nation's permanent worker shortage is expected to expand to 1 million.(Special Report)

Article Excerpt
Travel nurses who take on 13-week jobs at hospitals around the country and overseas have become a hot commodity in the health care world, where a shortage of full-time nurses continues.

A newly released survey by San Diego-based AMN Healthcare Inc., a large health care staffing agency, found that 70 percent of the 4,000 chief nursing officers surveyed reported an inability to recruit enough permanent staff as a key reason for hiring travel nurses.

And possibly, the demand for travel nurses could be contributing to the nursing shortage by convincing permanent nurses to switch to the travel mode.

"In a shortage situation that we're in, nurses feel comfortable leaving and picking up travel work," said Marcia Faller, AMN's chief clinical nursing officer and executive vice president of operations. "In that sense, our supply (of travel...

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