[originaltext] At one time it was the dream of many little girls to become a

At one time it was the dream of many little girls to become a nurse. However, (32)America is facing its hospitals in the US have shortages. The demand for nurses spreads widely throughout the nursing field. What has become of these women to be nurses? The answer lies in not one but several causes．One possibility is the fact that women have greater career options．(33)In the past, women who chose to work outside the home had two basic choices：nursing or teaching．In fact women today are found in nearly every field of work Nursing has been left behind, as women move onto jobs with higher pay and greater status A woman or man in the nursing students are actually being steered away from nursing, told by teachers that they are "too bright to be a nurse"． In fact，(35)the number of elderly patients has almost doubled in the past twenty years. Obviously they (35) require more nurses. (35)AIDS and other diseases have caused more and more people to need nursing care． Usually fatal diseases mean long hospital stay, that is to say, more nurses are needed to care for these patients. It is estimated that the demand for nurses will be doubled the supply in the coming ten years.