You have to wonder, how many potential new nurses we're losing each year due to a lack of space at schools. Maybe when nurses start retiring, a few will go into teaching. . . .

Nursing shortage: Too few teachers, CNN Health:"At nursing schools from New Jersey to California, a surge of applicants that could ease the nation's worsening shortage of nurses is being turned away because many schools can't find enough qualified professors.
That shortfall is driven by health-care jobs that offer better pay and by fewer nurses pursuing the Ph.D. required for full-time, tenured teaching positions."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/08/25/nurse.shortage.ap/

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursing.com