Rushton says the nation is at a tipping point in health care. With more than 3 million nurses in the United States—the largest segment of the health care workforce—any conversation about impending challenges of caring for aging baby boomers or the advancement of technology is deeply tied to nurses and can lead to new ethical challenges and moral distress. Just because new technology can keep a patient alive, does that mean it's the right thing to do? How best to allocate limited resources to a growing patient population? How can hospitals continue to deliver quality care for ever more patients when the workforce is not growing at the pace needed to keep up?