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Top-Level Nurses Can’t Finish Their Degrees because of a Severe Shortage of Mentors

Students are paying up to $2,500 per rotation as schools and clinics struggle to supply enough supervising clinicians, educators said.

CHICAGO — Midway through her graduate nursing program, Yesenia Raithel Vargas made a desperate plea to a Facebook group for other moms in Chicago: Does anyone know a licensed therapist willing to let her sit in on sessions and work with their clients under their supervision? It was a strange ask in the therapy world, which is one reason Raithel Vargas had resorted to Facebook. “I must have sent 50 emails, or made phone calls, just trying to figu…

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hechingerreport.org broke the news on Monday, August 24, 2026.
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