Nursing Education Expansion: A Side Effect Of The Nursing Shortage
Nursing Education Expansion: A Side Effect of the Nursing Shortage
Mercedes Gutierrez
Walden University
NURS 3000, Issues and Trends in Nursing
September, 4th, 2014
Nursing education expansion: A Side Effect of the Nursing Shortage In this modern world, news travel incredibly fast, and is not a secret that locally, nationally and globally we are experiencing a nursing shortage. Media coverage on this topic has become more frequent as the situation has worsened over the past years. The purpose of this paper is to address information from an article in a local newspaper about how the nursing shortage is consequently affecting the quality of nursing schools and future nurses.
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The author Miller (2013) addresses that due to the nursing shortage; laws were passed in the state of Florida, to allow colleges to open nursing programs, seeking to boost the number of nurses. As a result, schools were placed on probation and more nursing graduates failed the pass the Board exam. Miller stated that the bills increased the number of short-term nursing education programs. The majority of nursing programs were added by private schools that advertised degrees and certifications for a set price. The legislative retooling beginning in 2009 allowed less-accomplished education programs to open, often exposing students to the educational system that had an increasing unsavory reputation ( as cited by Miller, 2013). Nursing schools were opening in every corner of the city but were not properly maintaining good academic standards. This attracted many people that were seeking an easy degree dreaming of a well-paid job in the …show more content…
According to Aiken (2003), in 1950, 92% of new RNs graduated came from hospital diploma programs, whereas, by 2001, only 3% graduated from hospital diploma programs, and 61% came from associate degree programs, and 36% were baccalaureate program graduates. These statistics show a drastic change in educational background over the past years. However, why do we still have a nursing shortage? These numbers might reflect nurses graduating from school with less academic standards, which facilitate the completion of programs. When I finished high school, I decided that I wanted to become a nurse. I went straight to college and started to take the pre-requisites classes. In 2009, after laws were passed many private schools starting to offer nursing programs. I saw many students that had started on the community college dropped classes and went to those privates’ schools claiming that classes were much easier, and they became nurses in nine months. They ended up paying more money for their degree, but they finished in half of the time that I did. In the present times, most of them have left the nursing profession because they did not like the “job." They finished school because they saw an easy opportunity to obtain a degree. However, finishing a school does not guarantee that we will have enough good nurses in the future that will stay. Quantity does not guarantee the
Mercedes Gutierrez
Walden University
NURS 3000, Issues and Trends in Nursing
September, 4th, 2014
Nursing education expansion: A Side Effect of the Nursing Shortage In this modern world, news travel incredibly fast, and is not a secret that locally, nationally and globally we are experiencing a nursing shortage. Media coverage on this topic has become more frequent as the situation has worsened over the past years. The purpose of this paper is to address information from an article in a local newspaper about how the nursing shortage is consequently affecting the quality of nursing schools and future nurses.
Summary of the …show more content…
The author Miller (2013) addresses that due to the nursing shortage; laws were passed in the state of Florida, to allow colleges to open nursing programs, seeking to boost the number of nurses. As a result, schools were placed on probation and more nursing graduates failed the pass the Board exam. Miller stated that the bills increased the number of short-term nursing education programs. The majority of nursing programs were added by private schools that advertised degrees and certifications for a set price. The legislative retooling beginning in 2009 allowed less-accomplished education programs to open, often exposing students to the educational system that had an increasing unsavory reputation ( as cited by Miller, 2013). Nursing schools were opening in every corner of the city but were not properly maintaining good academic standards. This attracted many people that were seeking an easy degree dreaming of a well-paid job in the …show more content…
According to Aiken (2003), in 1950, 92% of new RNs graduated came from hospital diploma programs, whereas, by 2001, only 3% graduated from hospital diploma programs, and 61% came from associate degree programs, and 36% were baccalaureate program graduates. These statistics show a drastic change in educational background over the past years. However, why do we still have a nursing shortage? These numbers might reflect nurses graduating from school with less academic standards, which facilitate the completion of programs. When I finished high school, I decided that I wanted to become a nurse. I went straight to college and started to take the pre-requisites classes. In 2009, after laws were passed many private schools starting to offer nursing programs. I saw many students that had started on the community college dropped classes and went to those privates’ schools claiming that classes were much easier, and they became nurses in nine months. They ended up paying more money for their degree, but they finished in half of the time that I did. In the present times, most of them have left the nursing profession because they did not like the “job." They finished school because they saw an easy opportunity to obtain a degree. However, finishing a school does not guarantee that we will have enough good nurses in the future that will stay. Quantity does not guarantee the