Nurses are in high demand. Why can’t nursing schools keep up?

Hospitals Can’t Keep Staffing Like it’s 1995

The time to prepare is now, while there’s still time and space to figure out what works. Change is uncomfortable, but clinging to outdated habits is far riskier. The post  Hospitals Can’t Keep Staffing Like it’s 1995 appeared first on MedCity News.

Nurses are in high demand. Why can’t nursing schools keep up?

By Teresa Watanabe for The Hechinger Report Oscar Mateo dreamed of being an artist, but after he got leukemia when he was 20, his life plans abruptly changed. The compassionate nursing care he received while hospitalized touched him so much that he decided he wanted to provide the same for others. That impulse led him to the registered nursing program at Mt. San Antonio College in the Los Angeles County suburb of Walnut. But getting there wasn’t…