I stumbled upon an interesting article about Texas bills designed to improve the nursing shortage. It seems that there has been a lot of talk in the news over the past few years about nursing shortages. According to this article, the main reason for the shortage is that too many nurses are forced to work overtime and the nurse-patient ratio is too high. Does this mean that there are plenty of licensed nurses in Texas who are not working in their field for fear of being overworked? Or, are there not enough licensed nurses in Texas, period? There is a waiting list to get in to most of the Registered Nursing programs here in central Texas. In my opinion, there either needs to be more nursing programs created in order to accommodate all incoming nursing students or increase the number of faculty to allow more students in to the existing programs.
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