For sustained change and assurance of evading the forthcoming shortage, solutions must be developed in several areas: education, health care systems, policy and regulations, and image. This shortage is not exclusively a nursing issue, but will require a collaborative effort among nursing leaders, practitioners, health care executives, government, and the media.
Creating Cultures of Retention
The American [...]

By the year 2020 Illinois is expected to have a nursing shortage greater than 21,000 nurses. Faced with this imminent shortage the state is working on creating programs to attract, retain, and train nurses. In 2006 Governor Rod Blagojevich established the Illinois Center for Nursing, located within the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, [...]

Company: Broomfield Rehabilitation and Nursing Home (Direct Employer)
Location: Broomfield, CO 80020
Category: Nurse Management RN - Geriatrics
Posted: Dec. 08, 2008
Job Type: Full-time
Compensation: 70 - 100 per hour
Experience: At Least 3 Years
Deadline: Open until filled
Job Title: Director of Nursing / DON
Category: Nurse Management
Position is for: Full Time Employment
Position Posted by: Recruiter that Specializes in Health Care
Description & Requirement
Facility Description: Broomfield Rehabilitation & Living Center is [...]

Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, today announced that its board of directors has elected Pat Hemingway Hall as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective Nov. 1, 2008.
Hemingway Hall, who has served as HCSC’s president and chief operating officer [...]

Fresenius SE, parent company of Fresenius Kabi Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc. (NASDAQ: APCVZ - News), will announce third quarter earnings on November 4, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. CET/8:00 a.m. EST/ 7:00 a.m. CST. Fresenius Kabi is a business segment of Fresenius SE.
Fresenius Kabi acquired the Schaumburg, Illinois-based APP Pharmaceuticals on September 10, 2008. Under the terms [...]

Riverside Medical Center proudly celebrated the renovation of the North Lobby with a ribbon cutting ceremony on May 19 at 2 PM. Employees and visitors were welcomed to the newly renovated North Lobby for the unveiling ceremony. Updated renovations create an inviting environment for everyone entering the North Lobby looking for outstanding Illinois healthcare.
As Riverside [...]

After more than a year with an interim dean, the UNM College of Nursing has hired Nancy Ridenour to step in as dean by the spring semester.
Ridenour is an adult nurse practitioner and served as a congressional staff member. She was one of 19 applicants for the position.
John A. Pieper, head of the search committee, [...]

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, [...]

HOV Services (HOVS), one of the largest providers of business process and knowledge process outsourcing solutions, today announced the details of its medical records capture and conversion services that are expressly designed for physicians groups. Among its other practice areas, HOVS offers a suite of integrated Business Process Outsourcing solutions to manage the entire revenue [...]

For years, hospitals all over the United States have experienced a shortage in nurses, nurse administrators, nurse managers and nurse practitioners. Unfortunately, the shortage doesn’t appear to be getting any better.
According to a report by the Health Resources and Services Administration, 30 states currently have shortages of registered nurses (RNs). The shortage is expected to [...]