Tennessee governor aims to help nursing teachers
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, September 29, 2006
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Tennessee, like the bulk of America, is facing a nursing shortage and Governor Phil Bredesen is hoping to make the path of a nursing teacher much more appetizing in the state.
Bredesen recently signed legislation that will allow graduate nursing students the chance to earn a 25% credit toward their school loans for each year they spend teaching full-time in a Tennessee nursing school. More educators, lawmakers hope, will create more nurses.
A lack of nursing educators is a growing problem in the country, leading to more and more capable, qualified applicants being turned away due to a lack of faculty. A report from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing states that more than 40,000 hopeful students were rejected in 2005 alone.
Sources: State of Tennessee press release, The Jackson (TN) Sun, and WDEF News 12 (Chattanooga)
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