Although nursing is usually a very secure field to be in with nursing jobs being in high demand, with today’s economy, even nursing is feeling the crunch. Nurses are being laid off in numbers not seen in recent years. Hospitals and private offices are cutting their staffing to the bare bones. Malpractice insurance rates and overhead costs have forced many doctors to relocate their practices to other states or close their practices for good. Many hospitals have been forced to implement mandatory overtime practices in order to meet their staffing guidelines when the patient census rises and hospitals are caught without the necessary workforce.

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