But as the nursing shortage worsens, a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing experience to become registered nurses with only a year or so of specialized training.

I saw that nurses were in high demand and it looked like a really good opportunity," he says

Nurses that are still at the bedside view these kids with suspicion," says Linda Pellico, who has taught nursing at Yale University for 18 years.

figures show the number of male nurses has fallen in the last three years.

Numbers of male nurses increased between 2011 and 2014 and reached a peak of 7168.

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.

Instead, they perform routine and laborious tasks, freeing nurses up to attend to patients with immediate needs.

It's important to note that robotic nurses don't decide courses of treatment or make diagnosesthough robot doctors and surgeons may not be far of.

The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

There are more clinically trained social workers than clinically trained psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined.

Nurses and other care-givers need to be aware of the possible meanings of silence when they come across the personal anxiety their patients may be experiencing.

Nurses should recognize their own personal and cultural construction of silence so that a patient's silence is not interrupted too early or allowed to go on unnecessarily.

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