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Addressing the growing nurse shortage in South Carolina

By Mike Switzer

Published June 10, 2022 at 5:30 AM EDT

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You’ve probably heard that there is a severe nursing shortage in this country which, it appears, will only continue to get worse. And according to our next guest, our state is one of the worst in terms of the current and projected shortage. Which is why his organization has created a scholarship that they hope will help with this crisis. Mike Switzer interviews Bob Elliott, co-founder of the South Carolina Nurse Retention Scholarship in Hilton Head Island, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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