ASU's Nursing School Addition Started

The Arizona State University's College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation that was born in a library basement in 1957with three faculty members and six students started constructing a modern, $30 million, 5-storey building in downtown Phoenix. The nursing school increase in building, which will give greater teaching and office space for the college, is expected to open in 2007.

By 2002, ASU graduated an arithmetic mean of 160 nurses a year. At the present time, it has 320 nursing graduates yearly. The ASU's College of Nursing with its almost 2,000 students is the nation's largest today. It has recruited 23 full-time nursing faculty in the last 3 years, and to helps stop medical mistakes, it added strength to its frame for giving lessons in evidence-based practice to future nurses.

The enlarged nursing school is portion of the serious attempt of the State of Arizona to direct its attention to its nursing shortage. If we compare to the national average of 825 registered nurses per 100,000 people in 2007, Arizona had only 681 registered nurses per 100,000 people. That is 17 percent short of the national average.

Nursing has been defamed and given lower recognition in academia for decades, but it is the central profession in healthcare at the last part of the day because nurses are there every time they are required with state-of-the-art competency and state-of-the-art giving of care.

We must give an approval publicly expressed as by clapping our hands to our nurses, and to those who are responsible for nursing school addition. ASU breaks ground on nursing addition.