The state's Board of Nursing of South Carolina gave accreditation to the Bachelor of Science in nursing program of the University of South Carolina Beaufort's Bluffton campus. This four-year nursing degree is a long-time purpose of the college that is expected to diminish the nursing shortage of the area. The first class graduates in 2011 will be reevaluated for the program because reevaluation is needed for all new programs.

A donation of $1000,000 has been given to the Polk Community College Foundation by the Lakeland Regional Medical Center. This donation will be used as payment for books and tuition of twenty Polk Community College nursing students who perform their duties for Lakeland Regional Medical Center.

One more $100,000 will be used by PCC in equaling state money for its respiratory care plan of action.

Nursing is slowly but certainly reaching the state of being a profitable profession. The majority of nurses today in America earn rationally good salaries, but becoming a nurse is truly expensive.

To have great growth opportunities, nurses must have better qualifications. To have better qualifications,they must appear for certifying examinations for the purpose of getting the much needed licenses to be come full-fledge nurses before joining the workforce.

The rapid increase of schools presenting inefficient nursing education could produce a deleterious effect upon the Philippines' impression as the foremost procedure of high degree nurses in the worldwide job market.

The commission on Audit (COA) has stated concern ever the Commission of Higher Education's inability to issue measures used to enforce a rule ranging from initial warning for program termination to the issuance of a recommendation for program termination to nursing schools whose nursing graduates have consistent poor performance in the licensure examination of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).