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...message that health care is a rewarding and stable, if demanding, career. Nursing schools are filled to capacity. Last year they turned away more than 5,000 qualified applicants simply for lack of faculty--a significant loss to the pool of 70,000 nursing graduates each year. Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Fla., for example, has no openings in its registered-nursing program until...
Until the faculty shortage eases, hospitals are finding creative ways to fill the gaps in nurses and technicians. JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, Texas, helped three local schools add 60 spots to their nursing programs by lending its own nurses, on hospital pay, as instructors. Pasco Hernando Community College found that local hospitals were so desperate for nurses that they were willing not only to lend clinical instructors but also to pay tuition and expenses for students who would make a two-year commitment to work as nurses when they graduate...
That's a simplistic, if inaccurate, charge. Yet those historical grievances, says Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, are something foreign investors have too quickly forgotten--not just in Peru but throughout Latin America, where politics are turning sharply leftward after the capitalist reforms of the '90s left more of the region in poverty...
...entrepreneurship of the poor has produced assets in the “underground economy” worth over $9 trillion. But the poor are prevented from entering the legal realm by bureaucratic runaround. To document the extent of the challenges, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto describes in The Mystery of Capital how he tried to obtain legal permits to build a small house and license one sewing machine for commercial...
Upon achieving political supremacy, he finds he cannot escape this religious worldview. Ultimately his reliance on religion causes his defeat to Richmond (Hernando Cortés) and thus the downfall of the entire Aztec empire...