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Questionsare based on the following passage.What does it take to be a well-trained nurse? The answer used to be two-year associate's or four-year bachelor's degree programs.But as the nursing shortage36, a growing number of schools andhospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing37tobecome registered nurses with only a year or so of 38training.
In 1991, there were only 40 fast-track curricula; now there are more than 200.Typical is ColumbiaUniversity's Entry to Practice program.Students earn their bachelor of science in nursing in a year.Those who stay on for an39two years can earn a master's degree that40them as nursepractitioners (~执业护士or clinical nurse specialists.
Many students are recent41.; others are career switchers.Rudy Guardron,32, a 2004 graduateof Columbia's program, was a premedical student in college and then worked for a pharmaceutical (药物的) research company.At Columbia, he was42as a nurse practitioner."I saw that nurses were inhigh43and it looked like a really good opportunity," he says."Also, I didn't want to be in schoolfor that long."
The fast-track trend fills a need, but it's also creating some44between newcomers andveterans."Nurses that are still at the bedside45these kids with suspicion," says Linda Pellico, whohas taught nursing at Yale University for 18 years."They wonder, how can they do it quicker?" Theanswer is they don't.
A.additional
B.applied
C.demand
D.excessive
E.experience
F.explores
G.graduates
H.operations
I.promote
J.qualifies
K.specialized
L.tension
M.trained
N.view
O.worsens
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