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Accreditation for NMC’s nursing program
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Posted on Dec 17 2008
Currently, the U.S. military is experiencing its largest demand for nurses since World War II. The Army for instance, is such dire need of nurses that they are now recruiting nurses with Associate Degrees into the Army Reserve and offering to finance their obtainment of a BA. As a matter of fact, last week the Department of Defense announced plans, for the first time in the history of the U.S. Armed Forces, to recruit foreign nurses. This will mean that for the first time in the nation’s history, some commissioned U.S. military officers will be non-U.S. citizens.
What a shame, however, that, in the midst of all this (according to Mr. John G. Sanchez, of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command), the U.S. Army can still not accept graduates of the nursing program at Northern Marianas College, because our School of Nursing is still not accredited by the National League for Nursing.
My question is: Why not? I give up. How difficult would it be to get an accreditation visit by the NLN? What would it cost? A whole $7,000 for transportation, and room and board, for a few days?
By the way, I might mention that this lack of accreditation also precludes NMC graduates from applying for most other U.S. Government Nursing agencies (U.S. Public Health, Veterans Administration, etc), all of which are experiencing a shortage of qualified RNs and LVNs.
[B]Ron Mandell[/B] [I]Gualo Rai, Saipan[/I]
