Purdue Boosting Nursing Enrollment
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowPurdue University’s School of Nursing is expanding undergraduate enrollment. The university says the effort, which will double the number of admitted students, aims to help the state meet its growing demand for registered nurses.
Jane Kirkpatrick, head of the School of Nursing, says the number of students admitted to the school will increase to 200. The university says the increase will take place over the next three years, during which time the school will add 30 faculty members.
"We anticipate our graduates to be highly recruited as both academics and practice," said Kirkpatrick. "There is a current and growing nursing faculty shortage that limits our ability to educate the next generation of nurses, as well, there is a demand for nursing researchers to be employed in hospital and health care systems where they are highly engaged in improving systems and patient outcomes."
Kirkpatrick says graduates from the school have a 100 percent job placement rate, with about 70 percent of its students from Indiana. The Purdue School of Nursing is also taking applications for its new Ph.D. program, which begins in the fall of 2017.
