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    California needs nurses. So why is the state about to give up 10,000 prospects?

    by Melody Gutierrez and Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times Mar 26, 2020 4 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Amid a frantic scramble to open hospitals and increase the number of health care workers, California nursing schools are warning state officials that an estimated 10,000 nursing students are in jeopardy of not graduating, meaning they will be unable help evaluate and treat patients amid the coronavirus pandemic.

    Under state rules, nursing students must spend a substantial part of their clinical education in hospitals, but they are barred from doing so now because of hospital lockdown orders. Unless the state loosens its rules, students set to graduate in coming months will find it impossible to become a licensed nurse.

    As a result, public and private nursing schools are pleading with Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's Board of Registered Nursing to

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