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South Carolina looks to Ukraine to help train nurses

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, June 23, 2006

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To deal with the ongoing nursing shortage and the fact that nursing schools are turning away applicants because they don't have enough instructors, classes, or clinical slots to train them, many medical professionals are searching for other opportunities to train students who wish to become nurses.

Some medical professionals in South Carolina are now working on plans to increase the nationwide supply of nurses by training students in the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine. The country, which was a hub for medical training in the old Soviet system, has 120 nursing schools and a surplus of nurses, a source with the Greenville (S.C.) Hospital System said.

U.S. students who chose to study in Ukraine will have to pass a graduates-of-foreign-nursing-schools exam, as well as a licensing exam, before being allowed to practice. Tuition will be about $6,000 a year, with living expenses estimated at $2,000 to $3,000 per year for on-campus housing.

Source: The (S.C.) State

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