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[M. Plummer] Hi, I\'m Martel Plummer. I\'m the assistant dean for student services at the IU School of Nursing. We\'re a huge systems school within Indiana University based primarily out of the Indianapolis campus. We have over 1200 students in various programs.

[Jenny] I chose nursing because I enjoy working with older people. I have had the pleasure of having older ones in my family who lived for quite a while—great aunts. I enjoyed visiting them at the nursing homes and at the hospitals. I really wanted to be part of that.

[Andrea] Nursing was my first major. I decided I wanted to become a nurse when I was a senior in high school. My grandfather was in the hospital, and I saw how the nurses cared for patients. And, I really loved it. I loved how they took time with each patient and how they made the families feel better, and how they made the overall experience really good.

[M. Plummer] Typically our students go into hospital settings. Goodness, we have speakers that have talked about forensic nursing, nurse midwifery, trauma nursing, flight nursing. There are corporate nurses who are involved in wellness programs. The bottom line is that there is a tremendous demand for nursing. Any place a graduate nurse would go, they are almost assured a position.

In the second semester of the programs, students begin to take clinical courses. Once they complete that semester they\'re eligible to apply for student nursing positions in area hospitals. A lot of students decide they want to go ahead and start gaining that experience right from the beginning.

[Andrea] The clinical instructors have always been very in tune with our needs, and they are always very accessible. We have 10 students to a clinical group. Each student is given one-on-one time with the professor so that we can enhance our learning opportunities.

[Jenny] We had the opportunity to use the Sim Man, which we weren\'t sure to what to expect, but when we first turned it on, we realized that he has pulses. We can find pulses everywhere—even in his feet. And, his chest moves as he breathes. We can hear heart sounds, we can hear bowel sounds, and we can see the heart monitoring and hear the differences. That was a lot of fun and very educational.

[M. Plummer] It is highly competitive for students who want to get in the School of Nursing. Although we have many qualified students who apply, the difficulty is that we just don\'t have enough faculty. Nationally, there is a faculty shortage. As a result, we have to limit the number of student we can take annually.

We accept 100 students into the bachelor\'s degree program in the fall and 100 in the spring. We also have a program for second-degree students called the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing. We accept 30 students each, three times a year for that.