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The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law on Friday voted 7-2 to approve a bill (HR 5924) that would increase the number of U.S. work visas available annually for foreign nurses, CQ HealthBeat reports.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), would increase the number of visas to 20,000 [...]
In 2002, Larry May boarded a flight at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport for a business trip across the chilly blue Atlantic. The curious thing about the Hurst nursing home executive’s travel was that it took him to a rendezvous with a rented mailbox in England. He made the 4,500-mile journey to Europe and mailed letters. To [...]
Living to be 100 years old isn’t as rare as it used to be. But it’s still a surprise to find two women born just two days apart living at the same nursing home.
Grace Monahan and Pauline Pupi were born on July 27 and 29, 1908, respectively, and live at Villa St. Joseph in Baden, [...]
A retreat by private-sector lenders from the market for education loans is threatening to keep thousands of students out of college in the coming academic year.
About 10% of the nine million student borrowers in the U.S. seek such private loans, which supplement the limited amounts available from government-aid programs. Over the past decade, as government [...]
Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) today announced that it will offer the VersantTM RN Residency in the fall of 2008 at 10 hospitals. Tenet is expanding the residency offered by Versant Advantage, Inc. as part of its strategy to increase nurse retention and improve the acclimation of its new registered nurse (RN) graduates. Approximately 120 [...]
Janet Killen invested $5,500 and four years of her life getting what she thought was a master’s degree in nursing education from a Caldwell online college.
When she presented her degree in 2007 to Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore., where she teaches nursing, she was dumbfounded when administrators told her it was worthless in her [...]
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law on Friday voted 7-2 to approve a bill (HR 5924) that would increase the number of U.S. work visas available annually for foreign nurses, CQ HealthBeat reports.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), would increase the number of visas to 20,000 [...]
Southern Home Medical Equipment, Inc. (Pink Sheets: SHOM - News) announced today that the number of Nurse Professionals from all locations combined exceeded the 400 mark this month. Greg Tucker, President and CEO of Southern Home stated, “As we move forward, the Encore Medical Staffing team will continue to monitor this number and use it [...]
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The Mayo School of Health Sciences (MSHS) at Mayo Clinic in Florida offers diverse and challenging clinical experiences to nursing students enrolled in the Mayo Clinic-affiliated nursing programs.
Over the years, nursing education at Mayo Clinic has evolved from a practical need for the best nursing care for Mayo patients. Consequently, the organization has played [...]
Habana Health Care Center, a 150-bed nursing home in Tampa, Fla., was struggling when a group of large private investment firms purchased it and 48 other nursing homes in 2002.
The facility’s managers quickly cut costs. Within months, the number of clinical registered nurses at the home was half what it had been a year earlier, [...]
