Shortage of instructors = waiting?

Nurses General Nursing

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From what I understand the waiting lists to enter nursing programs are so long because there aren't enough of nursing instructors. It is because the salary between the nursing instructors and actual practicing nurses are not comparable enough and it's financially not worth it to be teaching. Now, I don't know how many nursing students are in one particular class, but wouldn't this problem be solved by simply chipping in a few more thousand dollars using your school loan? If there are 30 students in a class and each paid $5,000 more in addition to the say... $30,000 or whatever the school is charging... that's $150,000, enough to pay for an instructor or even two. I'd personally be willing to pay a little extra to get in earlier rather than having to wait 2-3 years. Share your views please.

Specializes in Hospice / Ambulatory Clinic.

The possible clinical times at our school is 6.45am-1.45pm 7am-7pm or 2.45pm-11pm I don't think having clinicials past 11pm would be good since you'd have to be in class in the next morning

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