Nursing education is very people-intensive. You can't just put one more chair in the classroom.
He does this every year to get out to as many counties as he can. He likes to talk to his constituents about what is on their mind.
We need money that schools can use to expand classes. A lot of this depends on the sort of support the university can get from the state.
Nor can medical schools charge what it costs to train a physician.
The message is getting out to the public that nursing is a terrific field. We need the resources to take care of the people who really want to move into it.
But I don't think people are sufficiently concerned about this situation ... If we don't have enough nurses, a lot of things don't work well in health care.