SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Leading nursing education and career website Top RN to BSN (http://toprntobsn.com) has published a ranked list of the thirty countries in the world with the greatest nursing shortages. Using data primarily from the World Health Organization (WHO), the list focuses on countries with less than twenty-three health workers per ten thousand residents, which the WHO considers the minimum number needed to meet eighty percent of a countries healthcare needs.
The full ranking can be viewed here: http://www.toprntobsn.com/countries-most-in-need-of-nurses/
Haiti is at the top of the list, with only about one healthcare worker per ten thousand residents. As a point of comparison, this is around one percent of the number of nurses per population in the United States, which has nearly one hundred health care workers per ten thousand residents, but is still considered to be experiencing a nursing shortage. Paraguay, Bolivia, Ethiopia, and the Dominican Republic round out the top five.
Other countries making the list include, in alphabetical order:
Argentina
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Bolivia
Brazil
Central African Republic
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Haiti
India
Indonesia
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Liberia
Madagascar
Nepal
Nicaragua
Paraguay
Peru
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Zambia
"In a world that somehow seems so small due to the impact of technology and instant communication, the periodic international news of epidemics or famine or disease remind all of us that the world may be a village, but the reality lived in different parts of the village is still unknown to us," said Jonathan Beachy, lead editor for the piece, and an RN with over forty years of international and domestic nursing experience. "Learning to know more about the world, whether at a microscopic level to understand disease and how it is spread, or as a world traveler, curious about what the rest of the world experiences, nurses and their allies will find this resource a marvelous tool to discover options for greater cosmic understanding," Beachy said. "As technology, science, social media, and world travel transform our world into an ever smaller global village, the awareness of life's reality for persons initially deemed to be distant and unrelated becomes ever more crucial for global understanding at both a human and professional level."
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