International nursing school opens amid nurse shortage

Friday, June 17, 2005

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts -- Kate Zajdel was among tens of thousands of qualified applicants turned away by U.S. nursing programs last year because there are not enough teachers or space. The dilemma brought the 22-year-old New Yorker to a new international nursing school in the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis, joining a class of 24.

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