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"I have an opening for a 12-month position that I can't fill because we don't pay enough," SFCC Nursing Education Department Director Kathleen Matta says. The University of New Mexico, which is also hiring nursing instructors, can pay more, Matta says. And as [Todd Eric Lovato] notes, qualified nursing instructors can often make more money working as nurses, than as teachers.

[Ron Liss] says SFCC would "absolutely" like some federal money. However, with five full-time faculty, Liss says the nursing program is "fully staffed."

Nevertheless, a nursing license is a meal ticket in this economy. "You may not get the job you want," Matta says, "but there are jobs out "there."

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Unless more young people take up nursing, a lot of baby boomers will have trouble finding someone to hang their IVs and feed them their meds.

Last year, according to the New Mexico Board of Nursing, there were 1,181 licensed re...

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