CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – In the fall of 2022, leaders from both UTC and our local hospitals came together to solve a nationwide issue.
“It’s almost at a crisis, where they can’t open wards because they don’t have enough nurses,” Chancellor Angle said at the press conference.
UTC’s response was to create an accelerated nursing degree program.
This program enables students to graduate with a BSN in just one year.
“It is a very intense program. But we’ve compacted it so we can get students into the program, get them out into the field, help us combat that nursing shortage that is happening across the nation,” Jason Peter, Asst. Professor of Nursing said. “Since the COVID-19 pandemic, you know, we’ve had a lot of nurses that have left the field. And this will kind of replenish what we’ve lost.”
The program admits students every semester.