NEED FOR MORE NURSES CONTINUES - Westfair Communications

From left: Manhattanville nursing student Sofia Lomedico, lab assistangt Teresa Mandarino and clinical coordinator Amanda Delerme.

Nurses Week, May 6 -12, was a time to celebrate nurses for their dedication to the profession. To honor nurses, Manhattanville University nursing students visited Blythedale Children’s Hospital and decorated a candy cart for the nurses at the facility.
Manhattanville School of Nursing and Health Sciences recently conducted its first class of Bachelor of Science degree in nursing on May 11.
The nursing profession is complex, specialized and rapidly changing due in part to an unprecedented wave of nursing retirements and aging population in need of care and the need for more primary care physicians. The researchers project that 1 million RNs will retire by 2030 and the federal government is projecting an expansion of the nursing field by 17% each year through 2028.