Medscape January 19, 2023
COVID widened the growing gap between care needs and nursing staff across the nation. Now, many states are stepping in with beefed-up budgets and new programs to build faculty and clinical placements.
Interest in nursing isn’t the problem. Nursing schools have had to turn away applicants because of the lack of clinical placement sites, faculty, preceptors, classroom space, and budget cuts, Robert Rosseter, chief communications officer for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), told Medscape Medical News.
Trying to help fill the pipeline, several states passed legislation in the last session to address the problem in public nursing schools.
Here’s a sample:
New Mexico approved $15 million in grants for expanding nursing school enrollment and $30...
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