Nursing schools in Mississippi have had to turn away about 2,400 qualified applicants each year in part due to a nursing educator shortage.
When Lydia Hall takes her nursing students to make rounds at the hospital, she watches closely as her students give patients medications and fix IV lines. She guides them, usually 21 or 22 years old, through evaluating heart rates, oxygen levels and blood pressure.
She does what she can to help them process seeing people in their worst situations and accepting they can’t fix everything.
