Nursing Workforce Growth Projection

Commission Members highlight the important role educational institutions play in the healthcare workforce supply and suggest ways to improve the status quo Survey responses from HWC Members Access: 66 Ensuring equitable access to financial support for students in both private and public institutions Capacity and Cost: 66 We need more medical school and nursing school spots. We make it too difficult to get in ୨୭ Certification Levels: 66 We have to look at the requirement for having all nursing aides certified. I am hopeful that our recently formed [initiative] can help bring more high school graduates into these critical positions „ 66 Early programs starting in grade school to introduce and connect healthcare interested students [are important in addressing the shortage] 99 [We should] examine increasing full-time academic salaries for nursing faculty in USG system institutions; stipends for RNs to attend USG institution programs for DNP or PhD degrees to increase pipeline of faculty and thereby increase student enrollment in our publicly funded schools and colleges of nursing We have to do more to reduce this cost. Students are leaving school with $200,000 + of debt (more if they have debt from college) 99 27 27

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