Why Are Qualified Nursing Students Being Turned Away? | Jason Altmire From #481 | The Way I Heard It
- Andy McIlvain
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Why Are Qualified Nursing Students Being Turned Away? | Jason Altmire From #481 | The Way I Heard It
"I had a conversation with Jason Altmire—a three-term Congressman from Pennsylvania turned workforce advocate—that started with a simple question and quickly turned into something a lot more uncomfortable.
We keep hearing about a “nursing shortage in this country—there are nearly 200,000 open positions right now. But here’s the part that will make your head spin: tens of thousands of qualified applicants are being turned away every year. Not because they’re unfit but because we literally don’t have the capacity to train them. So, what’s really going on?
Jason and I dig into the bottleneck—faculty shortages, credentialing hurdles, and a system that seems perfectly designed to stand in its own way. We also wade into some choppier water as we discuss the role of unions, the resistance of expanding to private training programs, and the prickly reality that sometimes, scarcity benefits the very people who are supposed to fix it.
This isn't a partisan rant or conspiracy theory. It’s a conversation where the answers raise more questions than you expected—and a few of them might make you squirm. Watch it, and if you think you’ve got a better explanation, I’m all ears." from the video introduction
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