Health-care consortium targets nursing shortage

There is a widespread belief that if you are in health care, you can get a job just about anywhere in this country.
In fact, the United States is going to need nurses – lots of them. Hospitals and clinics are already short 110,000 nurses as of 2003. And Colorado will need 10,000 nurses within the next several years, according to a white paper written in March by the Front Range Healthcare Leadership Consortium.
The consortium, a joint effort of regional community colleges, hospitals and health care centers, has formed to address a related problem: not enough instructors to teach…