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[quote=Anonymous]Has a pay wall but here’s an excerpt

“Steele, who ran Walden’s nurse practitioner programs for eight years, says she developed concerns as it grew. Before she left in 2020, the school had more than 15,000 NP students and fewer than 20 full-time faculty, she says, and made up the difference with hundreds of part-time teachers who weren’t always qualified: “Most of the people we hired had never taught before.” She says she was fired after raising concerns about Walden’s failure to mentor and train its part-time teachers.
The minimum undergraduate grade-point average for incoming students was 2.5—not high enough, in Steele’s view, to guarantee all applicants were of high quality. The school became “all about the money,” she says. “I don’t think we ever refused anybody.” Steele worries about the impact Walden’s graduates will have on America’s patients. “People’s lives are in our hands,” she says. “There are more opportunities for error when you have so many students and you don’t have very high requirements.” The school has bestowed more than 30,000 advanced nursing degrees in the past decade, or about 1 out of every 13 awarded, federal data show.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-24/is-the-nurse-practitioner-job-boom-putting-us-health-care-at-risk[/quote]

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