Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Nursing schools cannot attract a greater number of able applicants tha

Nursing schools cannot attract a greater number of able applicants than they currently do unless the problems of low wages and high-stress working conditions in the nursing profession are solved. If the pool of able applicants to nursing school does not increase beyond the current level, either the profession will have to lower its entrance standards, or there will soon be an acute shortage of nurses. It is not certain, however, that lowering entrance standards will avert a shortage. It is clear that with either a shortage of nurses or lowered entrance standards of the profession, the current high quality of health care cannot be maintained.

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) If the nursing profession solves the problems of low wages and high-stress working conditions, it will attract able applicants in greater numbers than it currentlydoes. "will be able to" toostrong

(B) The nursing profession will have to lower its entrance standards
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Statistics : Posted by KarishmaB • on 02 Apr 2015, 08:14 • Replies 13 • Views 13258

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