Although an increasing number of students graduate from nursing schools, less than 50 percent the license exams. In the nursing licensure exams given by the Professional Regulation Commission PRC in December 2007, only 43.4 percent of 67,228 nursing students passed the exams.

Critical Care Nursing is giving care for patients and families who are undergoing real or possible life-threatening illness in places such as intensive care units (ICU), emergency rooms, neurological and cardiac surgical ICUs.

Nursing Informatics is a broad field that unites nursing knowledge with utilization of computers by nurse programmer, nurse communicator, informatics nurse manager or nurse vendor representative.
   
Neonatal Nursing is providing care for new-born less than one month of age and premature babies by guaranteeing good health, giving preventive care to stop sickness and giving care for the babies who are not well.

The Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) put in mind of nursing graduates that incomplete papers will not be permitted them to take the June and November nursing licensure examinations.

For those nursing graduates who like to take the nursing licensure examinations on June 1 and 2, the deadline for the submission of complete requirements was on April 18, 2008.

For those who choose to take the exams on November 29 and 30, the submission of complete requirements will be on or before October 17, 2008.

To have a share in a regular, unbroken flow of nurses, locally and statewide, Augusta Technical College, one of four technical colleges in the state of Georgia that has been approved to begin nursing program, will receive gladly 25 new students to its brand-new 2-year Associate Degree program in a year-and-a-half. To succeed in coming to the inside of the Nursing Program, the students must apply and compete to be chosen as the best qualified students. The clinical training of the students will be at University Hospital.

For the last fire years, the state of Georgia has been taking action with nursing shortage, and because older nurses give up their active into their 80’s and into their 90’s, the experts except the shortage will go on. By 2012, twenty thousand nurses will be required but twelve thousand will be available at the present rate.