Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States, over 80,000 qualified applications were not accepted at U.S. nursing schools in 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. This was due primarily to a shortage of nursing professors and a limited number of clinical placements where nursing students get practical job training.
The U.S. doesn’t have enough faculty to train the next generation of nurses originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
