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 [...]

Daily News: VA Expands Nursing Education Program

New partnerships between the Department of Veterans Affairs and “seven of the country’s finest nursing schools” will ensure “world-class healthcare for veterans,” according to a release from the VA.
The five-year, $40 million VA Nursing Academy expands opportunities for nursing students at VA facilities, adds faculty at the schools to enroll more baccalaureate students and increases [...]

The 222 residents were interviewed by University nursing students

Half the residents of New Orleans were suffering from poor mental and physical health more than a year after their homes and community were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, according to research published in the September issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing.
Researchers from Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California, spoke [...]

VA Announces New Nursing Academy Sites

To provide compassionate, highly-trained nurses to serve the health care needs of the nation’s veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is establishing new partnerships with seven of the country’s finest nursing schools. The partnerships will bring to 10 the number of collaborations between the Department and nursing schools under the VA Nursing Academy.
The expanded [...]