As a freshman pre-nursing major, I find it very frustrating that I maynot even get into the School of Nursing at WVU. It’s extremely difficultto get into the nursing program here. Out of our entire nursing classonly about 40% of the students will get into the School of Nursing. Ibelieve the actual number of students is somewhere around 80. What aboutall the others? What if nursing is the only thing that we want to do?Many people dream of being nurses since they were little. We don’t wantto change our lifelong dreams just because a program is too difficult toget into. Everywhere you’re always hearing that there is a nursingshortage. In my nursing class, we learned that by 2025, the shortage fornurses could reach 500,000. If we are that short on nurses, why can’tmore qualified applicants get into the nursing programs? Does anyoneelse find that absolutely frustrating?
-- AW
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Part of the problem is that there is a teacher shortage in the nursing school. They don't have enough people to instruct everybody, and then add that fact to the fact that nursing is very popular here, and you have a sort of bottleneck situation.
One that WVU needs to pour money into fixing, in my opinion.
I agree that this problem is frustrating. But I also believe that this problem does lie in the fact that there are too many students wanting to be nurses and not enough teachers. Especially at a school as large as WVU. The school should put more time and effort into hiring more teachers especially because the field of nursing is in grave danger. The shortage is going to be hard on many people. Because I am in the pre-nursing major also, I have to have a back up plan. I do not like it because I've grown to love the school but if I do not get in I am going to transfer to a school somewhere in PA. That is my hometown state so it will be cheaper there too. I love nursing and I am going to continue through with it somewhere if I end up not making it into the program here.
I feel your pain. I wish I would have known about the problem with WVU's nursing program before I decided to come. I feel like it's just a big waste of time. College is so confusing, everyone wants us to come here & get a degree and succeed in life which we are trying to do but yet have so many barriers!!
I find this so unsettling. I love West Virginia University and the thought that I might have to either switch my major or transfer is really upsetting. I have come to the conclusion that if I do not get into the nursing program I will transfer because in the long run becoming a nurse will really pay off and I have wanted to be a nurse since I was little.
I entered the WVU with the dream I've had since I too was a little girl. I had planned to finish my BSn with the intentions of returning and completeing a graduate program allowing me to become a mid-wife. My worst fear is very likely to become a reality reading all of the comments posted thus far. I am unable to pick up and move to another school with a nursing program ( I hear the one at Fairmont State University is also excellent) making applying to another one not an option for me. I am at loss as to what to do from this point on. Do we lower our inhibitions and change our major or do we do the best we can and pray/hope for the best. I am not a big fan of competeing. I understood signing up for this program that it was competitve, but I didn't realize it was THIS competitive. How do they (the school) expect us to work together (which is what is involved in providing medical care no matter what position that may be)when we must worry about being the "best" in order to survive past the acceptance phase of our application into the program.
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