Because of the current nursing teacher shortage, some nursing schools are contemplating of closing down.  Nursing schools are doing a great job of recruiting new nursing students, but their are no teachers to teach these new students. Nursing students applicants are on the waiting list. High GPA's are no guarantee that they will get to the nursing program because of the nursing teacher shortage. New nursing students are becoming disillusioned because of these nursing teacher shortage. 

Healthcare administrators are worried about the general healthcare shortage, especially nurses, but they tend to forget that their is a nursing teacher shortage. If their is nursing teacher, then the nursing shortage will continue to grow.   For example, the average nursing teacher age is 51, and more than half will retire by 2013. 

Because of low salary and lack of nurses with BS degree make it almost impossible to recruit nursing teachers. Nurses with advance degrees tend to work in the clinical settings. Advance degrees usually are one of the requirements to teach nursing. Now some nursing schools are filling the positions with nursing faculty interns and people who can teach, but no advance degrees.