Tina Holland, president and CEO of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, is the first to admit that, along with other nursing schools in the area, her institution—which graduates anywhere from 300 to 400 undergraduate nursing students per year—won’t be able to fill Baton Rouge’s nursing shortage this year, or the next. But the school’s
Keeping the nursing pipeline flowing
The demand for nurses is so strong that academic institutions are adjusting to more targeted curriculum and hospitals are upping incentives to attract and retain these health care professionals.
