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Indiana needs more nursing school graduates to meet the state’s current health care needs, but nursing schools say they don’t have enough faculty. A House committee passed a bill that would remove the clinical experience requirement for instructors to help meet those needs.
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Nurses across the state say dangerous levels of understaffing are becoming the norm, even though hospitals are no longer overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients.
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Goshen College received a $4 million federal grant Tuesday to expand its nursing program by renovating Westlawn Hall.
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Today we talk about how the nursing shortage has impacted Indiana's nursing homes, and the people who live there.
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Amid a nursing shortage, nursing homes are relying on staffing agencies for help – but they're charging more for their services. Agencies say it's simply supply and demand. Nursing homes say they're being gouged. And the nurses themselves just want to make more money.
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Oni Thomas isn’t deterred by the current state of the nursing profession. She was accepted into the Ivy Tech nursing program just as the pandemic was beginning two years ago.
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Lawmakers aim to address nursing shortages. Indiana surpasses 21,000 dead. And statewide COVID-19 cases continue to drop.
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Opposition to a transgender athletes bill intensifies. Lawmakers are poised to reverse a key portion of their criminal justice reform effort. And legislators try to address the state’s nursing shortage.
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Health care providers say Indiana has a nursing shortage crisis, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. Legislation that cleared a Senate committee Wednesday seeks to help solve that issue.
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Today we talk about what's behind the nursing shortage in Indiana's hospitals, and what could be done to address the problem.