Nurses celebrate first ‘match day’ through new residency program
, 2023-01-10 06:43:54,
The country suffers from a nursing shortage affected by the epidemic. that The 2021 analysis showed a reduced total supply of RNs by more than 100,000 in one year, which is a larger decline than in any other year in the past four decades.
In this first cohort of nurses, there were 69 participants who were matched at a variety of locations across Colorado in a variety of departments including emergency, intensive care, and critical care. During the ceremony, program leaders called each nurse by name and then read aloud her place.
“I think the match itself is really good because it makes us … have a lot more control over what we’re going into,” said Scarleth Laing, a registered nurse integrated with the ICU at St. Francis Hospital in Colorado Springs.
For Laing, this was the culmination of many years of work and dreams. When she was asked as a child what she wanted to be when she grew up, her answer was always a nurse. Her husband has been in the military for many years, and with the constant movement that life brings, she wasn’t able to fully pursue her RN degree until recently. Now she can finally put those two letters after signing her name.
“I’m really excited,” she said with a big smile on her face. “I’m really glad St. Francis has some really good stuff…
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