For example,a two thousand four study showed that the number of school nurses nationally failed to meet federal guidelines.

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Doctors,nurses,social workers and others work with patients and their families to raise the quality of a patient's last days.

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Currently,more than twenty-one thousand nurses who trained in the Caribbean are working in the United States, Canada and Britain.

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At the same time, the health care needs of aging populations are expected to grow, intensifying the shortage of nurses.

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"There are concerns in most O.E.C.D.countries that the number of nurses is too small to respond to the demand.

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The ratio of nurses to population is about ten times higher in the United States and countries in the European Union.

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She says one possibility is a decrease in the number of school nurses during the period they studied.

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For example, nearly two thousand nurses left the Caribbean between two thousand two and two thousand six.

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For example, working women used to be shown mostly as nurses or teachers, because those were the jobs that many held in real life.

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"In the U.S.,for instance, some researchers have projected that there may be a shortage of close to a million nurses by two thousand twenty."

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Mr.Lafortune says a large number of nurses are expected to retire within the next ten years.

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For example,in nineteen eighty-seven, he led a team of seventy doctors and nurses in an operation to separate two babies joined at the head.

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The Labor Department says registered nurses earned an average of sixty-five thousand dollars last year.

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"But this has raised concern that O.E.C.D countries were mainly exporting their shortage problem to countries that may have an even greater need for these nurses."

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Elizabeth returned to the United States to start America's first training school for nurses.

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She is the executive director of the National Association of School Nurses.

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The United States is one of thirty-one countries in the O.E.C.D Gaetan Lafortune says in recent years many of the countries increased their efforts to hire foreign nurses.

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Amy Garcia says school nurses earn an average of forty-two thousand dollars.

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Nurses often have to split their time at different schools.

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And not all schools employ registered nurses.

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