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Thursday, February 16, 2006: South Carolina: Good faculty costly to hire:"Two recent Island Packet stories dealt with the acute national, state and local nursing shortage and with the desire to add a bachelor's degree nursing program to the University of South Carolina Beaufort curriculum. In both stories, mention was made of the need for nursing faculty. That need is only going to increase. The median age for nursing faculty is climbing closer to retirement age (I know, since I retired six years ago). Advanced degree registered nurses are more apt to choose areas of clinical practice over teaching positions. Why? As stated in one of the stories, nurses with a master's degree or doctorate "can make upwards of $100,000 in clinical settings."
http://www.islandpacket.com/editoria...-4979868c.html

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With the nursing faculty shortage much closer to getting critical, than the staff nursing shortage, I'm glad to see it getting more press.

Andrew Lopez, RN
Nursing Resources, A to Z
http://www.nursinga2z.com