Nursing students turned away despite high demand - FierceHealthcare
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Even though a recent New England Journal of Medicine study expects the nursing shortage to reemerge as the U.S. economy improves, a record 75,587 qualified nursing applicants were turned away last year, according to a survey from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Those rejections included more than 14,354 applicants to graduate programs. ... "The limiting factor is not prospective students--we're turning away thousands every year--it's faculty," Michael Evans, dean of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, told the San Angelo Standard Times. "We have an oversupply of students [and] an undersupply of qualified nursing faculty," he said. Read the full story >> |
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