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 [...]
There have been shortages of nurses in this country since the 1960’s but they have always resolved themselves fairly quickly. This nursing shortage, which began in 1998, not only persists but is expected to get a lot worse.
80 million baby boomers are slated to retire in the next decade and they will need a lot [...]
Almost a year after Atrium Medical Center moved to its new hospital facility on Union Road, we sat down with Doug McNeill, president and CEO, to discuss how the year has been and the changes the center has faced.
Q: A year into Atrium, what would you have done differently?
A: If we could have done anything [...]
Name: Rebecca McClanahan
Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Truman State University (1975); Master of Science in Nursing, with a Clinical Nurse Specialty in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, MU (1982). Completed doctoral coursework (all but dissertation) toward a PhD in Nursing, University of Kansas.
Work Experience: State Representative, House District 2, elected in 2006; Serve on the [...]
Skills Required
LPN, RN, Nursing Director, Program Director, MS in Nursing, Educator
Job Description
Nursing Program Director
If you have 10+ years experience as an educator. five years as a department head and a Master of Science in Nursing please read on!
What you will be doing:
- Under general supervision, manages the approval process and administrative functions of an LPN [...]
Health workers across the NHS are facing severe hardship due to the current economic crisis and the effect of a below inflation pay deal. With inflation running at a 16-year high, NHS unions have joined forces to press the Government to reopen pay talks for next year. The unions argue that the three-year pay deal [...]
Nurse Jennifer Dimmick helped her 71-year-old patient, George Mulligan, struggle from a chair to his feet for his daily walk around the corridor outside his hospital room.
In the days after Mulligan’s aortic valve replacement surgery, Dimmick was preparing him to care for himself after his discharge, showing him ways to lift himself while protecting his [...]
When Christy Jones, now 35, was a sophomore at Western Kentucky University in 1992, she witnessed a bad accident at a friend’s house.
“I felt helpless and powerless,” she said, sitting at a table in the nurses’ lounge at Greenview Regional Hospital. “And that’s when I decided to become a nurse.
“It fits me.”
While the Allen County [...]
When Tremayne Jackson was a child, he didn’t want to be a famous athlete. He didn’t want to be an astronaut or a senator. All Jackson wanted was to drive an ambulance.
So it should come as little surprise that Jackson has been a paramedic with the St. Louis City Fire Department for the past [...]
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 [...]
