Why is it so hard?

[Awesome3]

Ladies/Gents,

Why with the nursing shortage does it seem to be so hard to get into the Nursing program? They had a wait list in AZ and now in NC. Is this due to not enough professors to teach the curriculum?

Yolanda

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

~Albert Einstein

[Jeffthenurse]

In my experience as an instructor I've found that salaries for instructors are often LESS than for a staff nurse and nursing schools are unwilling to have their students do clinical on the 3P-11P or 11P-7A shifts. I taught Psychiatric Nursing in a big city LPN program for several years and staff nurses in the Crisis Center (a psychiatric ER) told me many times that if we come on the 3-11 shift on Friday nights, we'll get some great clinical experience. It was doable, I was willing to do it, and my students said they would come. The Dean however, gave me all sorts of excuses why it couldn't be done, "the Board of Nursing would have to approve it, lots of paperwork to fill out, have to inform the students, nursing director, staff, blah, blah, blah," and so it wasn't done and the students missed out on some great psych clinical opportunities.

Yes, we turn away thousands of qualified students every year and we lose a lot of successful nurses every year due to retirement or exhaustion. If we keep this up, we'll be replaced in the future by a frustrated Congress who will come up with a new name for a health care worker formerly called, "nurse."

[locolorenzo22, BSN, RN]

I would have to agree....there is someone from my class who went through the 2 years, passed NCLEX, got license, and then did NOT move like she had planned...now as far as I know she is not planning on working with that license....so add one more number to that figure commuter.