Fast Track for Nurses. Will Travel Nursing Be In Their Future?
In an effort to keep a supply of new nurses flowing into the medical system, California State University has introduced an accelerated BSN program. The program allows students with an existing Bachelor’s degree to earn a B.S. in Nursing in just 18 months. The program is full-time and it is intense. But someone looking for a career change can make it happen and become a degreed nurse in half the time it normally takes. This is...
The Long-Term Implications of Shortsightedness
Here is a great example of what I have been talking about regarding the nursing shortage. The author of this article in a Michigan newspaper points out how clueless lawmakers in his state are about the implications of the continued nursing shortage. He points out the economic impact for hospitals and individuals and shows how a local college cannot afford to educate all of the applicants to their nursing program causing them to turn...