Kansas Online Nursing Program Search If you thought Kansas would be exempt from the nation’s current nursing shortage, think again. More and more retired nurses are returning to work and just as many nurses nearing retirement are holding on to the jobs they currently have. Thanks to the failing economy, no one is leaving what [...]

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, in 2006 the National League for Nursing (NLN) estimated that over a thousand full-time teaching positions were unfilled nationwide: an almost eight percent vacancy rate in traditional four-year and higher degree programs. There was an almost six percent vacancy rate in associate’s degree programs. What is more, the vacancy rate was increasing.