Program aims to counter nurse shortage
Alyssa Dizon
Issue date: 11/1/07 Section: News
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Nursing faculty is aging, as well. A November 2006 report from several Texas health organizations stated that over the next five to 15 years, 70 percent of Texas nursing instructors will retire.
Cheek said there are already too few instructors because nurses working in hospitals receive higher salaries.
Tilley said most nursing faculty members have a master's degree, but a doctorate is required to get tenure and move to levels above that of assistant professor.
The college encourages students early to pursue graduate studies with a focus on education to fill the need for instructors. She said most graduates work whether they are in graduate school or not, but less than 5 percent of those students pursue graduate studies.
Tilley said the college does not have to do much recruiting because nursing has grown more attractive.
The Johnson & Johnson Co. uses profiles of male nurses in ads specifically to boost male recruitment, she said, and hospitals have marketed nursing as a respectable job with good pay, flexible hours and plenty of options. Many are interested, but according to the November 2006 report, U.S. nursing schools turned away 41,683 applicants in 2005 because of limited faculty, space and budget. Tilley said TCU has to turn away about 40 transfer students each semester because the college already reached its limit of 60 students per class.
Both Tilley and Burns said they want to provide more hands-on learning, but limited faculty and space make it difficult. Tilley said the college is outgrowing its space and sending some faculty to offices in the basement of the Tucker Technology Center.
According to the November 2006 report, Texas will be short 71,000 full-time nurses in 2020.
There have been shortages in the past, Tilley said, but this one is different because it is worldwide and "is not going to go away in our lifetime probably."
Cheek said there are already too few instructors because nurses working in hospitals receive higher salaries.
Tilley said most nursing faculty members have a master's degree, but a doctorate is required to get tenure and move to levels above that of assistant professor.
The college encourages students early to pursue graduate studies with a focus on education to fill the need for instructors. She said most graduates work whether they are in graduate school or not, but less than 5 percent of those students pursue graduate studies.
Tilley said the college does not have to do much recruiting because nursing has grown more attractive.
The Johnson & Johnson Co. uses profiles of male nurses in ads specifically to boost male recruitment, she said, and hospitals have marketed nursing as a respectable job with good pay, flexible hours and plenty of options. Many are interested, but according to the November 2006 report, U.S. nursing schools turned away 41,683 applicants in 2005 because of limited faculty, space and budget. Tilley said TCU has to turn away about 40 transfer students each semester because the college already reached its limit of 60 students per class.
Both Tilley and Burns said they want to provide more hands-on learning, but limited faculty and space make it difficult. Tilley said the college is outgrowing its space and sending some faculty to offices in the basement of the Tucker Technology Center.
According to the November 2006 report, Texas will be short 71,000 full-time nurses in 2020.
There have been shortages in the past, Tilley said, but this one is different because it is worldwide and "is not going to go away in our lifetime probably."
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C.V. Compton Shaw
posted 11/02/07 @ 1:14 PM CST
The acceptable mantra in nursing is: " Men are not discriminated against in any form of employment or education including nursing. Therefore, they do not need laws nor the enforcement of laws to protect them from discrimination in employment or education. (Continued…)
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