Much of the west is getting older and getting sicker. How unsurprising.
What even is the solution? Expand the already massive healthcare sector further? Where does the money for that come from?
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What even is the solution? Expand the already massive healthcare sector further? Where does the money for that come from?
1. This is way to much time in the classroom. Much of that coursework simply isn't necessary.
2. You have people that would be good nurses piking other programs because they can't get passing marks in classes that are irrelevant to day to day nursing.
Binding what are essentially professional programs to the academy is a mistake. Don't get me wrong, I love the academy. But we need nurses.
In the 1980s 55% of registered nurses were working with diploma. It is down to 6% today. Bachelors or greater was 27% and is now over 70% today.
As your link points out, many states are continually raising the bar and many have already moved to a BSN minimum.
I'm probably dating myself, but there was a time when people started working occupational nursing programs while in high school and were licensed a few years later.