Nov 26, 2007 6:30 pm US/Eastern
Army Nurses Help Fill Shortage
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
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Six veteran nurses have been brought onto the teaching staff of the University of Maryland's School of Nursing.
This Saturday, the annual Army-Navy football game will be played in Baltimore.
Every day in Maryland, both branches of the service are hard at work.
Alex DeMetrick reports half a dozen army nurses have been brought in to fill a teaching gap.
Whether they work in the contained world of surgery or the life and death bustle of emergency trauma care, across the state and the nation there just aren't enough nurses.
"The national nursing shortage, when you look at the base problem of that, you look at a shortage of faculty to staff nursing programs. And our move here is to help address that," said Lt. Col. Rick Knowlton of the U.S. Army.
Six veteran nurses have been brought onto the teaching staff of the University of Maryland's School of Nursing.
More than medical skills are passed on, and those experiences extend from battlefield trauma units to the long term care of Walter Reed.
While teaching is not new, a civilian university is.
Most students do not enlist, but by providing more instructors, more students can enroll and more nurses go to work.
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