We could take more if we had more faculty. One of the biggest problems that I see in nursing today, and the one that has got to be addressed, is lack of faculty. If you don't have faculty to prepare the nurses, you're not going to have any nurses, and some nursing schools are very expensive. You compound that with the fact that women have so many more doors open to them now. Even though we're graduating the numbers, there's just not enough to fill the void.
Many young people go to a hospital first, because they want to feel really good about their skills.
They want to feel comfortable in the emergency room or the operating room, and there isn't enough time in school to feel comfortable. You'll get a certain number who'll stay in hospital nursing. Now I want to do something else. Dr. Patricia Castiglia visits with seventh-semester nursing students Bobb Ivy and Sam Copeland. We take in 60 students twice a year.