Abstract:Background and objective: Nursing remains one of the fastest growing occupations according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Factors contributing to the ongoing nursing shortage including too few nursing faculty, limited clinical space, and sluggish growth in nursing program enrollment/capacity. Although most nursing programs are under pressure to accept as many qualified applicants as possible, as recently as 2019, U.S. nursing programs reported turning away over 91,000 qualified applicants due to insufficie… Show more
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