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Alabama faces a sustained nursing shortage, driven by retirement, among other factors. Two years ago, the Alabama Board of Nursing reported that 39,000 nurses in the state would retire over the next five years.
That was a key motivator for Alabama-based Columbia Southern University (CSU), which designed its College of Nursing and Health Sciences programming to respond thoughtfully and to scale, first gathering input from health care leaders and working professionals across the state to build programs that meet them where they are.
Given Birmingham’s robust health care ecosystem, these new options are especially relevant and potentially impactful to us. To explore how so, we recently spoke with Dr. Bonny Kehm, PhD, RN, CNE, who leads the college as its founding dean…