Nursing shortage? It's a matter of paying teachers

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[PSJA ISD Superintendent Daniel King] has been interested in solving the nursing shortage since the early 1990s, when he was a high school principal. He noticed well-qualified students were being turned away from nursing programs because community colleges did not have enough teachers.

“The colleges need nurses with master’s degrees to teach those courses and those nurses can get more money working in private practice. You would think we could build that program up so we can have enough nurses. We are very short sighted,” King said.

“We do not invest in the programs that matter. We end up importing a large percentage of our nurses. I have nothing against someone coming here to better themselves. My concern is we are creating a perpetual underclass. We are trying to do everything on the cheap.”