--- title: Nurses: Why We Need More description: Fighting slavery vs. containing China. Plus America's nurse shortage, fixing the Mars rover and life with the driverless truck. canonical: https://time.com/3899897/why-need-more-nurses/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-28T16:01:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:08:41.834Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why We Need More Nurses og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3899897/why-need-more-nurses/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why We Need More Nurses twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why We Need More Nurses by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 28, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 28, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**We need more nurses.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/opinion/we-need-more-nurses.html) By Alexandra Robbins in the New York Times **2\.** [**Is containing China more important than discouraging modern slavery?**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/26/tpp-malaysia-slavery%5Fn%5F7444978.html) By Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim and Laura Barron-Lopez in the Huffington Post **3\.** [**This is how you fix a space robot 140 million miles away from the nearest mechanic.**](https://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2015/May/05.21-mars-rover-chemcam-instrument-sharper-vision.php) By the Los Alamos National Laboratory **4\.** [**A robot might not take your job, but self-driving trucks will take the jobs of three million truckers.**](https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961) By Scott Santens in Basic Income on Medium **5\.** [**A special bacteria in your yogurt could diagnose liver cancer.**](http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/05/27/yogurt-laced-with-bacteria-may-serve-as-test-for-cancer-in-the-liver/) By Vijee Venkatraman in Beta Boston  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3899897/why-need-more-nurses/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3899897/why-need-more-nurses/"},"headline":"Why We Need More Nurses","datePublished":"2015-05-28T16:01:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:41.834Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3899897/why-need-more-nurses/","keywords":["Innovation","Space","Cancer","China","nursing"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3899897/why-need-more-nurses/","name":"Why We Need More Nurses"}}]}] ```