FILE- Alfred Rankins Jr., a state higher education administrator, speaks during a news conference on Feb. 27, 2014, in Jackson, Miss. Rankins, Jr., Mississippi’s commissioner of higher education, said nursing programs have struggled to retain faculty members because of the state's lower than average salaries for public university employees. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Amid a nursing shortage that is worsening poor health outcomes in Mississippi, nursing programs at the state's public universities are turning away hundreds of potential students every year because of insufficient faculty sizes.
