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Healey highlights nursing faculty shortage, pledges action to expand pipeline
Summary
Governor Maura Healey said Massachusetts faces a shortage of nursing faculty that constrains the pipeline of new nurses and pledged the administration will work to hire more faculty so more nursing students can graduate and hospitals can rely less on expensive temporary staff.
Governor Maura Healey told the Cape Cod audience the state needs more nursing faculty to expand the workforce pipeline and reduce reliance on costly temporary staff.
"We need nurses. Nurses have got to be trained. And one of the things we've bumped up against is that we just have a shortage of faculty members teaching nursing in our institutions," Healey said, and the administration will work to address that shortage so more students can complete nursing programs.
The governor framed the faculty shortage as a cost driver because reliance on temporary staffing raises expenses for hospitals and patients. No specific funding amounts or timelines for hiring faculty were announced at the event.
