"Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award grants to nursing schools to enhance their capacity to accommodate additional students in: (1) Registered Nurse (RN) associate or baccalaureate degree programs; or (2) graduate programs for prospective teachers of nursing or RNs who seek advanced practice degrees. Bases the amount of a school's grant on the extent to which the school increases its enrollment of nursing students for an academic year over its average nursing student enrollment for the four preceding academic years. Prohibits the use of grants to construct new facilities."
(GovTrack.US)
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The nursing shortage is deffinitely a huge issue currently in health care. Getting more funding to nursing schools to train more nurses is the first step to fixing this ongoing problem. This bill should definitely be passed.
Thanks for checking out our blog. We all agree that the nursing shortage is a huge problem in our country!
This bill is so crucial to hiring more nurses in all health care! As we have seen in our own school there are not enough places for people trying to acquire their RN. With more support from the government to get more teachers a greater number of students can be accepted into the program. More students means more nurses in the workplace!
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