California regulations may prevent thousands of nursing students from graduating, despite frantic effort to boost numbers of healthcare workers amid the pandemic.
Amid a frantic scramble to open hospitals and increase the number of healthcare workers, California nursing schools are warning state officials that an estimated 10,000 nursing students are in jeopardy of not graduating, meaning they will be unable help evaluate and treat patients amid the coronavirus pandemic.
California has been bracing for an onslaught of COVID-19 patients, with Newsom saying this week that the state will need 50,000 additional beds and many additional healthcare workers. With the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rising daily, nursing schools say the backdrop of their urgent request is clear.
"We could use these 10,000 nurses right now," said Joanne Spetz, an associate director of research at Healthforce Center at UC San Francisco, which produces supply and demand forecasts on registered nurses in the state."Getting them out the door and practicing is incredibly important." “We started appealing to the board three weeks ago saying this will be a huge problem if we can’t graduate nurses," Casanover said."There are no more nurses going into the pipeline until we solve this.”
Alison Wrynn, associate vice chancellor for academic programs, innovations and faculty development at California State University, said the vast majority of students expected to graduate this spring have had their clinical placement sites closed, largely because of the lack of available personal protective equipment.
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