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The projected need for nurses does not include faculty shortage. After four years, Kim Keech, 23, a single mom and full-time medical office assistant from Southgate, got a sigh of relief because she will be included in the list of nursing program graduates at Henry Ford Community College. "You can finally do what you've wanted to do. Nursing is the only thing that's going to help me support my child", she said. By 2015, Michigan is projected to have 18,000 nursing shortage, this was based in an industry study. But why did they turn away above 4,000 eligible applicants in 2006? There are no sufficient slots for them, according to another report. The need of able faculty and medical opportunities has caused the problem, argued by the Experts.
Community colleges must offer bachelor's degree in nursing as expected by Lawmakers in Lansing. The shortage of nursing faculty with doctor's degree could possibly result to the scarcity of qualified nursing instructors, according to their Opponents. Michael Boulus, executive director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, said that, "We are better equipped and we have the doctorates, qualified faculty, the staff and the facilities." Community colleges have improved their nursing program enrolment; they began to speed up the programs and to develop the night and weekend assistance. In the five community colleges of Metro Detroit, Nursing enrolment boost from 3,862 in 2004 to 4,753 in 2008, i.e. 23%. Susan Shunkwiler, a nursing instructor at Henry Ford Community College, said that employers are being selective. In the meantime, an associate's degree is enough to be a registered nurse. The four-year level will make the nurses more profitable and promotable. Instructors at Henry Ford are encouraging their students to advance their learning ahead of the associate's degree and to preserve their license; nurses need a certain number of progressing education credits. [via] |
