Nursing education is very people-intensive. You can't just put one more chair in the classroom.

He does this every year to get out to as many counties as he can. He likes to talk to his constituents about what is on their mind.

No, I haven't heard anything about it.

The message is getting out to the public that nursing is a terrific field. We need the resources to take care of the people who really want to move into it.

Nursing has become so much more competitive.

But I don't think people are sufficiently concerned about this situation ... If we don't have enough nurses, a lot of things don't work well in health care.