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Amid nursing shortage, colleges reject thousands of applicants
Topic Started: Apr 30 2018, 02:26 PM (89 Views)
PATruth
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/amid-nursing-shortage-colleges-reject-thousands-of-applicants/ar-AAwxQZo?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp

There's an acute nursing shortage in the United States, but schools are turning away thousands of qualified applicants as they struggle to expand class size and hire more teachers for nursing programs.

In America, experienced nurses are retiring at a rapid clip, and there aren't enough new nursing graduates to replenish the workforce. At the same time, the nation's population is aging and requires more care.
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George Aligator
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Nursing has been a boom-and-bust cycle for over a generation. That is not to say that there isn't a shortage now, but the supply-demand balance is tipsy for a number of reasons. The medical training component of healthcare has its own problems but the instability caused by public confusion over ACA isn't helping. It takes longer to train a specialist RN than a fighter pilot. We need stability in our healthcare.
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Given the demographics I have to think the strong demand is going to be there for at least the next 30 years. Shameful, these are good paying jobs with benefits that are going unfilled.

Jane Kirschling, dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore, said her school admits new students in the undergraduate program twice a year.

"We're averaging 200 applications each time for 55 slots," she said. "So we're turning away one student for every student we accept."


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Apr 30 2018, 03:24 PM
Given the demographics I have to think the strong demand is going to be there for at least the next 30 years. Shameful, these are good paying jobs with benefits that are going unfilled.

Jane Kirschling, dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore, said her school admits new students in the undergraduate program twice a year.

"We're averaging 200 applications each time for 55 slots," she said. "So we're turning away one student for every student we accept."


I agree about the over-all trend long-term. Women are now a majority in medical schools. Nursing had more high quality applicants when there was still a glass ceiling on the MD degree. This may be part of the problem. There have been scattered layoffs and contract disputes across the country in recent years. The situation in many smaller, rural hospitals is perilous. The field is changing.
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Here's a decent piece regarding the problem: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e78a/f5ea69df9418e7d7d1bb03b13673ec1933c8.pdf

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RNs seldom do nursing...More often than not they are managers in hospital wards without managerial training............. :oyvey
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