Nursing future is still bright

Colorado State University-Pueblo nursing students were toldThursday they are entering the profession at the right time. "It's really an sparkling time to be in health caring as well as nursing,"Karren Kowalski, halt president of the Colorado Center forNursing Excellence in Denver, told the students. Kowalski was the keynote speaker at CSU-Pueblo's annual nursingdepartment convocation held in the Occhiato Ballroom.The annual gathering of undergraduate as well as connoisseur students,faculty as well as staff focused upon new horizons in nursing.With the series of people turning 65 growing any year, Kowalskisaid there is starting to be the greater need for health careprofessionals to caring for them.Furthermore, she pronounced statewide about one-third of registerednurses are age 55 or comparison as well as are coming retirement in thenext few years."You are starting to see then, the lot of jobs opening up in Colorado.Don't get anxious though we're waiting for we all because we aregoing to be critical to whether or not we're starting to be able toprovide health care."Most nursing faculty also are nearing retirement which will lead tomore jobs for the profession, she said.Home health caring will be among the greatest areas of growth, shesaid."We know caring will be moving to the home, believe it or not. Iwould like to encourage the students to be interested in homehealth."Kowalski told the students to work hard as well as to not be afraid tobranch out to alternative areas of the profession.She pronounced she has been the staff nurse, conduct nurse, faculty, nurseadministrator, author as well as researcher."Do we see the unbelievable options that we have just in oneprofession," she said. "It's pretty amazing. You can find alldifferent kinds of things to do, so cling to in there."She reminded the students that getting their grade won't be easybut it will be rewarding in the end."I don't wish we to think every day in propagandize is starting to be easy,because it isn't," she said."You are starting to have to stretch as well as we are starting to have to workhard. But I'm absolutely assured that if we apply yourself, youcan do."Joe Franta, coordinator of CSU-Pueblo's connoisseur program, pronounced thisis the special time for the nursing dialect with the recentapproval of the doctorate in nursing use program.The program plan was approved dual weeks ago as well as the first class ofstudents is scheduled to begin in the fall.

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