Members of the Schneck Medical Center board of trustees heard a number of reports, approved proposed insurance premiums, and organized committees for 2008 during a meeting Monday night, Jan. 28, at the hospital in Seymour.Vicki Johnson, vice-president of nursing services, presented results of the 2005 Indiana Registered Nurse Survey Report. She noted that the nursing force is getting older and, as many of those nurses retire, hospitals are expected to face a severe shortage of registered nurses by the year 2015.Johnson noted that one obstacle in overcoming the expected shortfall is that the state’s total nursing faculty has not increased in the past nine years. “There is no lack of people interested in going into nursing,” she noted, but a lack of qualified instructors. “We’re working with Ivy Tech, IUPUI, and the other universities to try to change that,” she added. Read more