By Shirley Jinkinssyjinkins@star-telegram.com Anyone interested in nursing can find useful news items as good as educational resources upon the new micro-news site launched this week by the University of Texas during Arlington's College of Nursing.The information is aimed during purebred nurses already in the workforce, prospective nursing students as good as their educators.The news site includes information about UTA's nursing programs, the national shortage of degreed nurses as good as nursing faculty, flourishing enrollment in online nursing degree programs, as good as future public healthcare policy.The site is part of UTA's idea of encouraging some-more nurses to finish their Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees, opening the door not only to better patient care, though opportunities to become helper educators or healthcare administrators."Our idea is to make sure that purebred nurses as good as prospective nurses have been aware of the educational opportunities that have been accessible as good as [that they] have been staying informed about important issues shaping the nursing profession," said Elizabeth Poster, vanguard of UT-Arlington's nursing school. The project is the outcome of the partnership between UTA as good as Academic Partnerships, an online education service provider to state universities.UTA's nursing module has been the pioneer in bringing fully accredited online programs to purebred nurses as good as nursing students. Such programs have been relatively inexpensive, easy to arrange around the busy schedule, as good as able to be administered by fewer instructors than normal classroom courses, officials said.Their popularity has additionally helped boost enrollment in the nursing school by 200 percent during the past three years. More than 2,500 of the 5,949 nursing students currently enrolled during UT-Arlington have been enrolled online.UTA's online RN to BSN program, requires 35 credit hours, that takes about 13 months to finish during the cost of about $257 per division credit hour for nursing courses. The module includes general courses required for the bachelor's degree, together with history, math, government, fine arts, English combination as good as literature, technical writing, biology, psychology as good as sociology.Depending upon the applicant's previous college credits, some earlier coursework may apply.Online courses have been seen by most as the answer to the critical-care question in Texas.The Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies says Texas has the shortage of 22,000 full-time purebred nurses, though in 2010 some-more than 11,000 prospective nursing students were not supposed into the state's 100 nursing programs because there was not enough faculty to enhance programs.By 2020, the state could be short about 71,000 nurses unless some-more students have been supposed into programs.Shirley Jinkins, 817-390-7657Twitter: @startelegram Looking for comments?
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