This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_000_01BE7607.DDDE8100 BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1999 RELEASED TODAY: In December 1998, there were 1,608 mass layoff actions by employers as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month. Each action involved at last 50 persons from a single establishment, and the number of workers involved totaled 190,070. The number of layoff events was about the same as a year earlier, but the number of initial claimants for unemployment insurance was higher in December 1998 than in December 1997. The total of layoff events from January through December 1998 and the total number of initial claimants were higher than in 1997. ... The nation's hospitals are experiencing a shortage of registered nurses, especially the specialized, highly trained nurses who staff operating rooms, emergency rooms, intensive care units, and pediatric wards for high-risk babies. Driven in part by an aging population and the turmoil in managed care, the shortage began a year ago in California, and this year it has touched nearly all acute-care hospitals, where patients go with strokes, heart attacks, and major surgery and that employ nearly two-thirds of all registered nurses. ... "This shortage appears to be a new and different type," said a report last month of a survey of 338 acute-care hospitals. The report, sponsored by the American Organization of Nurse Executives, a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association, was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services and the American Nurses Association. "Previous shortages," the report said, "have been about sufficient numbers of nurses, while this shortage appears to be about an increased demand for nurses with competence, skills, and experience to meet patient demand for care in a changing health care system." ... "And we are at the verge of a very serious shortage related to the aging of the work force," says a director of nursing for a large health maintenance organization. The average age of nurses is 45, about a decade older than the average for the population. They will be retiring with the baby boomers. ... Not only is the flow of young people into nursing diminishing, so is the quality of the candidates. ... Hospitals are seeking women who have left nursing to rear children, as well as full-time nurses who can be lured into extra part-time assignments with wages of $30 or more an hour. .... 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