Article about nursing school teacher shortages

[oneday_nursepoundcake]

One of my classmates forwarded me this article yesterday (while I was studying hard for an exam... thanks!). Basically, it's saying there aren't enough teachers to teach people who want to become nurses, so of course nursing schools are being extremely selective and many aren't able to get in.

Nursing schools are rejecting thousands of applicants -- in the middle of a nursing shortage

Have you seen this where you live? In NYC, the public nursing school programs *do* seem incredibly competitive -- but I'm still a few months shy of applying myself to know personally. I guess no one is adding more nursing classes/expanding programs to train nurses since so much can be squeezed out of existing nurses for more profit?

Would love some thoughts on this from people who know way more about this topic than I do!

[RainbowSprinkles]

Hi there, this problem is nationwide. Unfortunately, it's more money in actual nursing than teaching. If I'm not mistaken thats why some state schools knocked out the msn program completely and only have DNP programs. I know in Maryland this is the case. I believe its an incentive to produce higher educated nurses whom are more likely to go into education/be able to run programs.

Also I've seen data, that there is no nursing shortage for the most part. There are some states with nurses shortage but NY is not one of them. The data I saw, stated that by 2022 NY will have a surplus. My guess is there will be a surplus of bedside nurses eventually, more and more nurses are obtaining their msn and dnp degrees.