Global Nursing Shortage by 2030

The impending nursing shortage has significant implications for healthcare systems worldwide.

Failure to address the nursing shortage may lead to decreased access to healthcare services, reduced quality of care, increased healthcare costs, and other negative implications. Addressing the causes of the nursing shortage will require collaboration between governments, healthcare organizations, and educational institutions. It requires a multi-faceted approach, inclusive of increased access and funding for nursing education, improved working conditions, efforts to reduce migration in developing countries (such as improved working conditions), and the use of technology in healthcare and nursing education.

Nurses International (NI) continues to play an important role in democratizing and increasing accessibility to much-needed health care education through the provision of free nursing courses offered on the NextGenU.Org  portal. Aligned with Nurses International’s commitment to enhancing accessibility to nursing education, these courses can be accessed from anywhere in the world, including low- and middle-income countries. Some of the courses offered include Pediatric Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Maternal Health, and Oncology Nursing, along with other Health Assessment Course Resources. The innovative curriculum and hybrid model of education is geared towards NI’s vision of  “improving the health of the world, one person, one nurse, one community at a time,” as these efforts continue to mitigate gaps in nursing education worldwide.