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Highlights from the Aberdeen paper:
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aber...s/11173235.htm
SDSU prepares to offer state's first nursing doctorate program
DORIS HAUGEN
Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - South Dakota's first nursing doctorate program could help ease a shortage of nurses by putting more faculty members in the classroom who have the credentials needed to teach college nursing courses.
A key to increasing the number of registered nurses in South Dakota and elsewhere is having enough educators qualified to teach at the college level, said Roberta Olson, dean of nursing at South Dakota State University in Brookings, where a new doctorate in nursing starts in the fall. . . .
In the fall of 2004, 72 qualified students were turned away from four-year nursing programs in South Dakota because of a lack of space in classrooms, said Gloria Damgaard, South Dakota Board of Nursing executive director.
Another 110 qualified students were turned away from two-year associate degree programs.
Nationwide, thousands of qualified applications are turned away each year because of a shortage of nurse educators, according to statistics from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
Margot Nelson, head of Augustana College's nursing department, said only four of the 10 nursing faculty have doctorates. The college in Sioux Falls offers a master's degree in nursing.
"We'd like to double that," said Nelson, adding that some in her department have applied to the SDSU program. "We were there a few years ago but like elsewhere the faculty is aging and we've had retirements." . . .
The Ph.D. program at SDSU will give nursing educators in the state an opportunity they haven't had before, said Nelson.
"It can do nothing but benefit nursing education programs in South Dakota," she said.
While the shortage of nurses gets a lot of attention, few realize the lack of nursing faculty is part of the problem, nursing officials said.
In South Dakota, only about 30 of the 10,000 registered nurses in the state hold a doctorate, said Olson. Twenty-one of them are faculty members at SDSU. About 400 RNs in the state have a master's degree. . . .
Go State! ;D
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aber...s/11173235.htm
SDSU prepares to offer state's first nursing doctorate program
DORIS HAUGEN
Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - South Dakota's first nursing doctorate program could help ease a shortage of nurses by putting more faculty members in the classroom who have the credentials needed to teach college nursing courses.
A key to increasing the number of registered nurses in South Dakota and elsewhere is having enough educators qualified to teach at the college level, said Roberta Olson, dean of nursing at South Dakota State University in Brookings, where a new doctorate in nursing starts in the fall. . . .
In the fall of 2004, 72 qualified students were turned away from four-year nursing programs in South Dakota because of a lack of space in classrooms, said Gloria Damgaard, South Dakota Board of Nursing executive director.
Another 110 qualified students were turned away from two-year associate degree programs.
Nationwide, thousands of qualified applications are turned away each year because of a shortage of nurse educators, according to statistics from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
Margot Nelson, head of Augustana College's nursing department, said only four of the 10 nursing faculty have doctorates. The college in Sioux Falls offers a master's degree in nursing.
"We'd like to double that," said Nelson, adding that some in her department have applied to the SDSU program. "We were there a few years ago but like elsewhere the faculty is aging and we've had retirements." . . .
The Ph.D. program at SDSU will give nursing educators in the state an opportunity they haven't had before, said Nelson.
"It can do nothing but benefit nursing education programs in South Dakota," she said.
While the shortage of nurses gets a lot of attention, few realize the lack of nursing faculty is part of the problem, nursing officials said.
In South Dakota, only about 30 of the 10,000 registered nurses in the state hold a doctorate, said Olson. Twenty-one of them are faculty members at SDSU. About 400 RNs in the state have a master's degree. . . .
Go State! ;D
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