Oregon nursing program risks closure amid leadership void – KTVZ

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A management void is placing a nursing program in Portland, Oregon, vulnerable to closure, inflicting concern for college kids and school because the state grapples with a nursing scarcity.

The director of Portland Group School’s nursing program hasn’t been changed since resigning final month, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. The college has till Might 4 to fill the place below state nursing laws.

College students and school members say they’re frightened.

“We’ve college students which can be about to graduate,” mentioned Anne Mortensen, a nursing college member at PCC. “They will be unable to graduate if we wouldn’t have a director.”

Dozens of individuals attended the school’s board assembly final week to testify and name for the nursing program director to get replaced.

Nursing college at PCC say a part of the problem of filling the management place has been monetary. Two college members who supplied to fill the function briefly requested greater pay. PCC declined the supply, OPB reported.

The school is “engaged on discovering a substitute swiftly,” PCC’s interim senior director of promoting and communications James Hill mentioned in a press release to OPB.

A possible closure would probably exacerbate Oregon’s scarcity of nurses and nursing college.

Nursing applications in Oregon have struggled to recruit lecturers due to low pay. Nurse practitioners earn extra working in well being care than in schooling. Oregon has the twelfth largest pay hole within the nation between nursing college and nurse practitioners, in keeping with a current state company report.