To discover a remedy for an expected statewide shortage of 32,000 nurses by 2020 in Georgia, Greater Rome schools are remedying. Georgia Highlands College is giving its remedy by expanding its associate's of science in nursing A.S.N. The graduates of A.S.N. May go on their education at night with the University of West Georgia to get their Bachelor of Science degree in nursing B.S.N.

To occupy the empty space in nursing Shorter College is adding new program and just got developmental acceptance for a bachelor of science in nursing. 

The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), an umbrella organization of individual and different nursing groups in the Philippines, is resisting the imposition of practical nursing (PN) program upon the nursing profession in the Philippines, and insertion of PN by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) by means of a suggested ladderization of the nursing curriculum.

To provide better services to the needs of patients, Pella Medical Clinic began last March 24 to offer a Nurse Call Center from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., from Monday to Friday. The Nurse Call Center at Pella Medical Clinic will be staffed by experienced registered nurses who will cooperate with the caller to find out the character of the problem, the seriousness of the changes in the structure or functioning of the patient indicating the presence of disease  and then direct the patient to the proper level of care decided by a set of criteria accepted as satisfactory by the physicians of Pella Medical Clinic.

Seventeen Japanese nursing students from Hakuho Womens College in Japan lately visited BYU's College of Nursing to share calfure technolgy and impormation and to gain knowledge mhat nursing education and clinical experience is like in the United States. They swiftly made friends after they visited an introduction to cummunity health nursing class where they delivered a presentaion concerning research and recieved a presentation delivered by BYU students.

Since the nursing program at hakuho,womens college does not unite clinical expierance up to the last part of students ' education the Japanese students were given a treat by pairing them with  BYU  nursing students so they could  experience the College of nursing 's hands on programs by following BYU students at their clinical experiences.