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WILMINGTON, N.C., May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ With COVID-19 continuing to pose a real threat to young adults in the United States, 322 colleges and universities – and counting – are already considering vaccine mandates for their students, faculty and/or staff for the fall semester. But implementing a campus-wide vaccine mandate is incredibly complex, a logistical nightmare requiring compliance with agencies such as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), HIPPA, Title VII, GINA, CCPA, and GDPR. How do schools execute a vaccination plan while also being mindful of exemption logistics and legal implications?
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Demand for nurses was strong even before the pandemic hit. There are about 3 million registered nurses in the United States, but employment is expected to grow 7% between 2019 and 2029, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Getty/monkeybusinessimages)
Last December, Mirande Gross graduated from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, with a bachelor’s degree in communications. But Gross has changed her mind and is heading back to school in May for a one-year accelerated nursing degree program. The pandemic that has sickened more than 27 million people in the United States and killed nearly 500,000 helped convince her she wanted to become a nurse.
Michelle Andrews
Kaiser Health News
Last December, Mirande Gross graduated from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, with a bachelor’s degree in communications. But Gross has changed her mind and is heading back to school in May for a one-year accelerated nursing degree program. The pandemic that has sickened more than 27 million people in the United States and killed nearly 500,000 helped convince her she wanted to become a nurse.
“I was excited about working during the pandemic,” Gross, 22, said. “It didn’t scare me away.”
Enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs increased nearly 6% in 2020, to 250,856, according to preliminary results from an annual survey of 900 nursing schools by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.