There are 11 article(s) tagged nursing shortage:

• August 2025

  • Northwest Mississippi Community College nursing students ace test, but can they fix bigger problem?

    Northwest has enhanced its nursing program to encourage more students to enter the profession at a time of decline.

    By Brandon LaGrone II August 25, 2025

  • US could soon be down 100K health care workers. Local colleges have prescription to fill the gap.

    While nursing is the nation’s largest health care profession, nursing-school enrollment is not growing fast enough to meet the projected demand for registered nurses.

    By Aisling Mäki August 18, 2025

• October 2024

  • New UT program to try to fill nursing gaps in rural, underserved hospitals

    “We are proud and honored to receive this funding, which we hope will be instrumental in retaining newly graduated nurses in areas with nursing and health care gaps,” the dean of UTHSC’s College of Nursing said.

    By Aisling Mäki October 12, 2024

• August 2023

  • Memphis nursing partnership’s big impact draws national attention

    Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will receive the Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

    By Aisling Mäki August 29, 2023

  • UTHSC College of Nursing adds partner schools to address workforce shortage

    To address the nationwide nursing shortage and increase diversity in the nursing profession, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing has doubled its number of partner schools in the region. 

    By Aisling Mäki August 07, 2023

• July 2023

  • UTHSC, Baptist act to fill need for nurses in operating room

    The Operating Room Scholars program’s nursing students will receive some tuition support from Baptist Memorial Health Care and agree to work for Baptist for two years following graduation.

    By Aisling Mäki July 28, 2023

• October 2022

  • UTHSC, Methodist tuition-free program offers fast track to nursing career

    The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that more than 275,000 additional nurses will be needed through 2030.

    By Aisling Mäki October 05, 2022

• September 2022

  • Second-career nurses find healing fulfillment while aiding shortage

    One started out as an automotive service manager. The other was a zookeeper. Now, they are nurses, filling gaps in a national shortage.

    By Aisling Mäki September 12, 2022

• May 2022

  • New nursing program helps graduates transition to in-person care

    Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis plans to launch the program this summer to help newly graduated nurses transition from the classroom to the bedside with confidence.

    By Aisling Mäki May 13, 2022

• August 2021

  • Methodist ups pay, gives nurses 20,000 extra reasons to stay

    Nurses have until Sept. 10 to sign up for the two-year program. The first $10,000 installment will be paid Sept. 24.

    By Jane Roberts August 24, 2021

• December 2020

  • Field hospital CEO: Without nurses, opening 495 Union makes no sense

    Staffing shortages account for bottlenecks in emergency rooms, and the inability to staff hundreds of vacant hospital rooms.

    By Jane Roberts December 08, 2020