Launching of New Bachelor’s Degree Program of Nursing field
University of Southern Nevada (USN) will now accept application for the 14 month accelerated second education bachelor’s degree in nursing field (BSN). Program will start in the month of October. United States will be facing critical nursing educational shortage even in thousands that will be nearly 50,000 in the year of 2008 for their prospect learners that will just turned away from this baccalaureate educational nursing programs based on the American Association of Nursing College. As of now, United States have face critical educational nursing shortage to thousands that will be just nearly 50,000 in the year of 2008 for its prospective learners who were just turning away from this baccalaureate educational nursing programs based on the American Association of Nursing College. In addition to this, based on the result of PEW Charitable Trust by the year 2015, the demand towards nursing individuals will eventually be exceeding to its supply for every state and through the year 2020, in nationwide and the demand for the nurses will also be exceeding its supply through just more than 1 million. In Nevada, the entire need for these nurses from now on through the year 2016 considered as quite urgent. Based on the Nevada Department of Employment, Rehabilitation, and Training stated that the occupation will entirely grow through 37% with its annual growing rate that is 3% in the year 2016. Just nearly 5,500 new nurses will consider be as necessarily state wide as this early 2016. In the recent 2006, Nevada got a second lowest nurse to its patient ration that is behind only in California. Meanwhile, in ironical manner; hundreds of these prospective nursing learners had already turned away through this Nevada nursing educational learning institutes due to its limited educational program capacity.
Mable Smith who currently the dean and professor of USN Nursing College, that this limited educational program capacity will entirely causes the current educational nursing shortage. In addition to this, convergence of these two factors for the aging baby boomer population and into this aging nursing working force will entirely be intensifying the impact of shortage upon patient care. The recent healthcare reform had already expanded over their healthcare coverage towards millions of Americans that will entirely create a greater demand towards healthcare services and even more strain for tenuous situations. Smith have continued that the healthcare occupations will still remain as its most impervious towards its economic downturns and for their current recession that already mitigated an immediate demand for its nurses. Aside of that, experts have also agreed that this will be considered as a temporary trend and chronic nursing shortage will still exists especially in the area of Nevada. USN have entirely realize that the mere solution towards this concern is towards increasing the learners capacity through offering accelerated educational degree program in nursing field towards individuals who continually seeking upon changing its respective careers. Whereas, the traditional educational bachelor’s degree program in the field of nursing might take more years for the graduates of this USN’s accelerated into this online BSN program as they will be earning their educational degree program for about 14 months. USN accelerated educational online program will blend to its well convenient and flexibility online instruction with this on site clinical development skill that been taught through this experience nursing educators and for their clinical rotations in southern area of Nevada healthcare facilities that includes the St. Rose Dominican Hospitals.
Rod Davis who is the president and current CEO of St. Rose Dominican Hospitals; that these three St. Rose Dominican Hospitals are quite well known upon providing a quality, healthcare for their community, being compassionate, and their nurses are considered as main reasons that are quite able of providing higher level of care. They are now looking forward upon working on with this USN College of Nursing for clinical rotations so that the nurse to patient ratios will now better aligned in the area of southern Nevada. The program that well approved through this Nevada State Board of this Registered Nursing considered as the second bachelor’s educational degree program that been offered through this USN’s College of Nursing. With that, prospective learners are entirely required to have on this bachelor’s educational degree for non-nursing discipline from the regional accredited college or university. USN is regionally accredited by this Northwest Commission for College and University. Not only that, nurses will be considered as a demand in the next few years to come but this median salary entirely got an estimated higher rank than this median salaries for their occupations. Median annual salary for the Registered Nurses was about $62,450 based on May 2008 Occupational Employment Statistics report from Bureau of Labor Statistics.