As the U.S.population of Baby Boomers ages, the need for nurses grows as this age group possesses many medical needs, putting a strain on a health care system already suffering from a nursing shortage. Dr. Peter Buerhaus and coauthors discovered that, by 2025, the U.S. nursing shortage is expected to increase to 260,000 nurses. Researchers on an article titled “The Recent Surge In Nurse Employment: Causes And Implications” attribute the projected shortage to the lack of youth in the profession. This lack of youth could be the effect of the inflating cost of a higher education. Since 1995, in-state tuition has risen 296% at public national universities and outpaces the inflation rate, as of 2015. College is deemed a necessity, yet priced as
