You need LPNs, licensed practical nurses, in the system. There are about 15,000 in the country. How many of them could go and take the RN program? That's a great question. We hear a lot of hearsay that they would be a strong component of it, but it wouldn't be an overflux. One, you need the education criteria to join it.
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