Stumbled upon this really great article about immigration, the recession, and the profession of nursing on BusinessWeek ...
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/...n_id=rss_daily
Here's an interesting bit of it "In May, Representative Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) introduced a bill that would allow 20,000 additional nurses to enter the U.S. each year for the next three years as a temporary measure to fill the gap." It'll never happen, but interesting nonetheless =P