August 2, 2002

Nurses Needed, Stat.

By CATHERINE E. SHOICHET

Shortage leads colleges to expand programs and recruitment

Tom Quinn is quick to acknowledge that as a middle-aged former police officer with three children, he's not a traditional nursing student, and certainly not a traditional nurse.

But Mr. Quinn, new president of the National Student Nurses' Association, says that bringing more nontraditional students like himself into the profession is an important part of the group's efforts to recruit students of all ages, to alleviate a

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