Reforming Care Delivery: How Will It Affect Your Nursing Career?

While no one knows whether Congress and the president will achieve comprehensive health care reform, nursing experts are convinced that, regardless of what happens in Washington, nurses will find greater career opportunities in the future.
From larger patient populations and greater demand to advances in telemedicine and more community-based, non-hospital careers, a number of factors are [...]

The Effects of Health Care Reform, or No Reform, on America’s Nurses

Along with insurance issues and patient protections, the documents spelling out the plans for health care reform contain several provisions to increase the supply of nurses and support nursing education and training. What will happen to these provisions–and the future nursing workforce–if reform isn’t passed in the near future?
Nursing leaders are clinging to hope, [...]

The President Offers Sustained Support for Nursing Education and Research in a Tight Budget Year

President Obama released his FY 2011 Department of Health and Human Services Budget Request, which provided details on the funding levels he proposed for critical nursing education and research programs. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) recognizes that the Administration has remained committed to addressing the nursing and nurse faculty shortages by providing [...]

Nursing Shortage looms

In the midst of a national nursing shortage, Indiana nursing programs rejected about 2,500 qualified applicants because of a lack of full-time faculty, according to a survey of state nursing programs.
The 2008 survey by the Indiana Nursing Workforce Development Coalition said faculty shortages prevent nursing programs from maintaining a supply of qualified applicants.
With a looming [...]

Unanimous Vote Creates Largest RN Union In U.S. History California Nurses Association

The promise of the future has arrived, said Karen Higgins, an RN from Massachusetts, and one of three newly elected presidents of the NNU, “with all the unlimited potential, creativity, vision, and power represented” by the delegates in the room, and the 150,000 members of the founding organizations.

NNU unites three of the most active, progressive organizations in the U.S.-and the major voices of unionized nurses-in the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses, and Massachusetts Nurses Association.

Cancer Survivors Break Ground on Proton Therapy Center

Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]

Economic affects toward nursing degree

Lindsey McDermott, a nursing major at St. Anselm College, said she wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the economy until she went home to Norwood, Mass., for the Columbus Day break.
“Everywhere I went, people were talking about it,” she said.
Now that she has started paying attention, McDermott, a 20-year-old junior, is worried.
“I [...]

Federal funds to ease shortage falling short

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 [...]

Nursing homes : Federal Monitoring Surveys Demonstrate Continued Understatement of Serious Care Problems

Why GAO Did This Study
NURSING HOMES
Federal Monitoring Surveys Demonstrate Continued Understatement of Serious Care Problems and CMS Oversight Weaknesses Highlights of GAO-08-517, a report to congressional requesters GAO reports since 1998 have demonstrated that state surveyors, who evaluate the quality of nursing home care on behalf of CMS, sometimes understate the extent of serious care [...]

Clinical Data Utilizing the DRX9000(TM) Will Be Presented at the CONy in Athens, Greece!

Clinical data utilizing the DRX9000 True Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression System™ will be presented at the 2nd World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy) in Athens, Greece October 23-26, 2008. The first study, is an IRB-approved, prospective multi-center phase II, non-randomized pilot study authored by Dr. John Leslie of the Mayo Clinic and others. This study [...]