Wanted! Nursing Educators

Abstract

For a number of years, we have been speaking about the nursing shortage and the dramatic impact this shortage will have on health care outcomes for the United States healthcare system. The nursing shortage is especially problematic in the rural areas of our country where this shortage affects not only access to health care but quality outcomes for vulnerable rural populations. The thoroughly acknowledged nursing shortage is compounded by the shortage of faculty to teach nursing. Even in areas where nursing applications to schools of nursing have increased, students are unable to gain admission because there is simply not enough faculty to teach those nursing students.