Texas Moving To Graduate More Nurses
April 28, 2009
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Hoping to incentivize the training and graduation of more nurses in the state, the Texas state Legislature moved forward with a bill that would hire more faculty at nursing schools as well as reward those with more than a 70 percent graduation rate, according to an Associated Press report.
State Representative Lois Kolkhorst, a Republican and author of the bill which passed the House last week, said that nursing is a good job, "and we're having to import nurses. Yet when you look at the kinds of jobs you want your children and other people's children to have, this one jumps to the forefront."
According to the article, the bill's aim is for the supply of nurses to catch up to demand by 2013. A key component is supplying enough teachers, according to Representative Donna Howard, a Democrat and former nurse. According to Howard, roughly 8,000 qualified applicants were turned away from Texas nursing schools in 2008 because they didn't have enough faculty.
Realizing that demand will only grow in the future, Texas and other states are putting plans into place to attract and retain trained nurses. This might be the perfect time to look into getting a nursing degree.
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