Local universities address nursing shortage
Baltimore Sun
Driven by two trends -- the graying of the profession and a bedeviling national nursing shortage -- Baltimore-area colleges and universities are expanding programs to not only train the next generation of nurses but address a looming shortage in their own faculty ranks. New, accelerated graduate programs at schools such as the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Stevenson University have been formed recently to make it more convenient for current nurses to obtain advanced degrees, and hopefully use those newly acquired skills to train other nurses.

MSU Program Aims To Fill Void Of Nurse Shortage
NBC Montana
Montana State University is hoping to fill the need for nurses with a new accelerated program. Many hospitals are having a hard time finding qualified people to take the jobs. Bozeman Deaconess Hospital said it is one of the hospitals in the state that has been able to hire good nurses. "We have about 300 nurses, both in the hospital and in the clinic. As an example, we have about 3 percent of the nursing positions that are being advertised right now," Director of Human Resources, Rick Harden said. But many hospitals throughout the state, in smaller communities such as Havre do have a hard time hiring nurses, Harden said.

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