Great news for the health care community in California as a state initiative has been successful in getting more students licensed as registered nurses. The figure now is up to 10,400 nurses graduating as registered nurses. This is an almost 70 percent increase from last year.
The state initiative is called California Nurse Education Initiative and it led to the making of 23 nursing programs. This initiative focuses around joining the industry and community colleges. 90 million dollars was given in a public and private partnership. This is great news for California and they are really paving the way for other states to do the same.