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[QUOTE]Originally posted by QuestSolver: [QB] stevo--don't care much for RB but do get some info from there such as this from Rocky. MSSI is in and industry that's posed for growth. Easing nursing shortage also means curing instructor crisis Jul 16, 2005 (The Dallas Morning News - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via COMTEX) -- It's a number that still gives Dr. Beth Mancini pause: 4,200 people applied to nursing programs statewide two years ago but were turned down. "We need every one of those nurses; they could be hired tomorrow," said Dr. Mancini, associate dean for undergraduate nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington, adding that last year's number was probably 5,000. The nationwide nursing shortage is reaching crisis proportions, yet prospective students are being turned away largely because of the increasingly lean corps of nursing faculty. It's a problem with few solutions, as more instructors reach retirement age and as the private sector and its high pay draw nurses away from academia. But hospital operators, in dire need of more nurses and with little control over the number that schools turn out, have begun to dedicate more resources to colleges and universities in an effort to ease both the nurse and faculty shortages. "We need to address this -- and now," said Jim Willmann, director of governmental affairs for the Texas Nurses Association. "There are qualified applicants waiting to get in and jobs waiting when they get out, but the bottleneck is with the faculty." In Dallas-Fort Worth alone, hospitals are trying to fill a void of 1,500 nurses. Nationally, the shortages are continuing to mount. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that registered nurses will be the fastest-growing occupation by 2012. Over the years, hospital companies have tried various methods of attracting nurses -- sign-on bonuses, recruiting from other countries and student scholarships -- but they have proved to be only temporary fixes. More recently, these companies have supported colleges and universities with dollars and personnel to help find long-term solutions. Arlington-based Texas Health Resources began supplying faculty, funding and students for El Centro College in Dallas in January 2003. The investment has reached about $1 million a year, which covers faculty salaries, tuition and instruction materials. THR, which operates 13 hospitals, including Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and Harris Methodist Fort Worth, believes that medical assistants and technicians have the makings of registered nurses. So the company lets these employees take distance-learning classes through El Centro and clinical practice at THR from faculty hired specifically for these students. THR is on track to produce 40 nurses each semester -- without taking up additional classroom space at El Centro, says Michael Evans, RN, THR's chief learning officer. "It became clear that our own employees who aren't nurses had the aptitude and the ability, but they were constrained by financial reasons or transportation," Mr. Evans said. "We traveled the world looking for nurses. The mother lode is within ourselves, within our 17,000 employees." Student Elizabeth Lawrence, 33, of Hurst, works as a Spanish interpreter for Harris Methodist H-E-B Hospital in Bedford. She plans to graduate from this program next year with a degree from El Centro and change job titles to registered nurse. "I thought this is another way I might use my Spanish in the medical field," Ms. Lawrence said. "Of course, having your education paid for is wonderful, too." The program doesn't put more teachers in El Cento's classrooms, but it lets the school produce more nursing graduates. It's a program that's catching on, said Charlotte Green, associate dean of El Centro's nursing program. Baylor Healthcare System, Methodist Health System and Medical City Dallas Hospital plan to make similar arrangements with El Centro, Ms. Green said. "This allows us to take in more students, with the hospitals helping defray some of the costs," she said. "Hopefully, this helps the hospital with employees coming back to work for them, this time as nurses." Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. is going after a different talent pool, using a three-year grant that it hopes will produce nurses and, ultimately, faculty members. Last year, the company earmarked $2.8 million for accelerated undergraduate and graduate nursing programs for mid-career people who already have bachelor's degrees in related and unrelated fields. The grant is for five schools, including Texas Woman's University in Houston and the University of Texas at El Paso. "Our No. 1 priority was to look at tapping into a different source for nurses that in the short term relieves the nursing shortage," said Garry Olney, Tenet's vice president for nursing clinical operations. "But a lot of schools offer a track where students can go from a bachelor's to the master's level, then they are eligible to teach, and this is where we believe we will help with the faculty shortage." Health educators are also hoping initiatives from the recent legislative session will help. State lawmakers appropriated $6 million to nursing schools for faculty. By Steve Quinn To see more of The Dallas Morning News, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.dallasnews.com. Copyright (c) 2005, The Dallas Morning News [/QB][/QUOTE]
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