Experts say increasing Alaska's reliance on out-of-state health care workers is economically untenable. But one big roadblock to training a homegrown workforce is hiring enough nursing faculty at the state’s university.
that from an economic standpoint, the state has to be able to develop its own health care workforce or those costs could go up even more.
“We get a lot more applications than what we have seats,” said Carla Hagen, director of the nursing program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Nearly all of the school’s graduates get their initial licenses in state. Last month, most of the graduates from the university’s Fairbanks program went directly to work in a local hospital.
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