Just as the legion of baby boomers is about to swell the need for quality health care, America’s nursing population is aging and more nurses are moving into primary care settings. The result: America’s hospitals and other institutions need more nurses, especially those who deliver specialized care.
Front-page newspaper stories paint a picture of a nursing [...]
A pinning ceremony will be held today, marking the beginning of new careers for students graduating from the nursing program at Rockland Community College.
But it’s unclear even to many of this year’s students exactly how many will receive their class pins or even graduate.
Numerous students in the associate degree program failed the final exam [...]
Nursing schools nationwide rejected more than 41,000 qualified applicants in 2005, compared with 33,000 in 2004 and 18,000 in 2003, and three out of four schools attributed the increased rejections in large part to an insufficient number of faculty members, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, USA [...]
As I’ve written in past blog entries the nursing shortage is due not to a lack of interest but a lack of nurse educators. Nationally, 42,866 qualified applicants were turned away from traditional brick and mortar nursing schools for the past fall’s semester because there are simply not enough seats, according to the American Association [...]
Nursing shortages are nothing new. For years, U.S. hospitals have imported nurses from Canada, the Philippines and elsewhere to fill vacancies. But an aging baby boomer population and aging nursing work force are combining to create an unprecedented crisis that could lead to more medical mistakes and even patient deaths, experts say.
The nearly 78 million [...]
While traditional brick-and-mortar nursing schools turn away thousands of applicants they cannot accommodate, online schools are blitzing Ohio with radio and TV ads and billboards, and one company is honing a for-profit program to help meet the burgeoning demand for nurses.
In the late ’90s, hospital cutbacks under managed care led to fears of an [...]
The United States is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows. Compounding the problem is the fact that nursing colleges and universities across the country are struggling to expand enrollment levels to meet the rising demand for nursing care. [...]
With a nursing shortage expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows, hospital operators are rethinking the way they recruit and retain nurses. They’re offering big-time signing bonuses, flexible working schedules and special activities aimed at distinguishing themselves from the other potential employers. And they’re getting creative. Hospitals are [...]
Marissa Perry was only 16 when she discovered her purpose in life. It’s unfortunate, she says, that a drunken driver had to crash head-on into her car for that purpose to be made clear. But the months of therapy that followed instilled in her a calling.
Now 19, the 2007 Tate High School graduate is in [...]
Federal funding for nursing workforce development programs apparently is on target to rise slightly in 2005, but remains far short of levels sought by nursing advocates, according to the American Nurses Association.
A House subcommittee has approved a $5 million boost to the 2004 funding level of $147 million for scholarship, diversity grant, and loan repayment [...]
