May 1, 2023
New Rural Health Voice Podcast on Advanced Nursing Degrees
The latest Rural Health Voice podcast hosted by NRHA past president Beth O’Connor of the Virginia Rural Health Association discusses why rural Virginia needs advanced degrees in nursing with Laurie Anne Ferguson of Emory and Henry, which just launched a master’s in nursing program. “We do know that while some of us have traveled and lived all over, most people tend to stay or go back to where they grew up when they establish a career or start families,” Ferguson says. “By educating nurses in this region, we would be more strategic in being able to recruit … There is (also) a nurse faculty shortage, and one of the ways to solve that shortage is to grow our own.”
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