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Date:9/15/2008

ter New Orleans' CARE Program graduated its first class in May 2006, with 100% of the class obtaining RN licensure despite the challenges students and faculty faced after Hurricane Katrina. Since its inception, LSUHSC's CARE Program has graduated a total of 75 students, with an additional 31 on track to graduate in May 2009. The average score on the RN licensing exam of LSUHSC CARE students has equaled or exceeded 90%. Eighty-one students are presently enrolled in LSUHSC's CARE Program.

"For a variety of reasons, including student maturity, local health care partners clamor for LSUHSC School of Nursing CARE graduates," says Pierce. "Since the program's inception, 100% of our CARE students have had job offers prior to graduation."

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), by the year 2020, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) projects that more than one million new Registered Nurses (RNs) will be needed in the U.S. health care system to meet the demand for nursing care. HRSA projects that nursing schools must increase the number of graduates by 90 percent in order to adequately address the nursing shortage. With preliminary data showing a 7.4 percent increase in graduations from baccalaureate nursing programs this year, schools are falling far short of meeting this target.

The nursing shortage is acute in the metropolitan New Orleans area and is the limiting factor in the number of hospital beds that can be opened. According to Louisiana Health Works, the Occupation Forecasting Report and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the latest estimated RN shortage for Louisiana is 4,000+.

"This program aims to safeguard the health of the nation by helping to ease the nurse and nurse faculty shortage," said RWJF President Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A. "This new initiative also will advance our strategic goal of promoting leadership in the health professions."

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Contact: Leslie Capo lcapo@lsuhsc.edu 504-568-4806 Louisiana State University Health Science Center Source:Eurekalert

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