Showing posts with label nursing shortage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nursing shortage. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Nurse Staffing Ratios Can Affect Outcomes for Cardiac Patients

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A study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that hgher nurse-to-patient staffing ratios may improve survival rates for cardiac...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Opinion Piece on Addressing the New Jersey Nursing Shortage

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John R. Lumpkin , senior vice president and director of the Health Care Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and chair of the Robert...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Nurses Utilize Training and Education Outside of Health Care Sector

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With nursing shortages being reported nationwide and new nurse graduates having difficulty finding clinical positions, nurses are now turnin...
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Monday, August 6, 2012

Aging Baby Boomers Face Home Health Care Challenge

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Over the weekend, John Seewer, reporting for the Associated Press , addressed the current and growing shortage of home health care aides. Wi...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

Nursing Schools Brace For Faculty Shortage

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Earlier this morning, National Public Radio's Morning Edition program discussed the looming faculty shortage facing nursing schools nat...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

RN Labor Supply Bubble: What Does it Mean for Rural Health Care?

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Over the past year, many studies have predicted that a temporary employment bubble is approaching for Registered Nurses in many urban areas....
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The Health-Care Sector is Booming. So Why Are Nurses Having Trouble Finding Jobs?

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Over the weekend, Sarah Kliff, writing for the Washington Post's WonkBlog , discussed the difficulty that many new nurse graduates are h...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Qualified Nursing Students Turned Away Due to Lack of Faculty

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A recent report by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing has found that while nursing school enrollment increased by 5.1% in 2011,...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Men Shoring Up Nursing Shortage in Female Dominated Career

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Following up on previous posts (covered here and here ), Barry Carpenter, of CW33 in Dallas, TX, discussed how a greater number of men then...
Monday, March 26, 2012

New York Times: More Men Trading Overalls for Nursing Scrubs

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Last week, Tess Vigeland, reporting for the New York Times , detailed the transition many men [and women] are making into the nursing workfo...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Nursing Shortage Is Temporarily Over in U.S. Until 2020

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A study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that the nursing shortage in the United States that led to a dec...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Nursing Programs: Shortage of Qualified Faculty Burdens Eager Students

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Over the weekend, Laurel Scott, of gosanangelo.com , discussed the ongoing issue of the lack of nurse faculty throughout the country. Ms. Sc...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Why The Florida Nursing Shortage Matters

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Earlier today, Kathleen Long, Dean of the University of Florida College of Nursing, was featured as a guest columnist in The Gainesville Sun...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Counting on Nurses to Fill New Jersey's Primary Care Gap

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During the holiday break, Patricia A. Barnett, Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey State Nurses Association & Institute for Nursin...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Newly Licensed Registered Nurses' Geographic Immobility

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The December issue of Health Affairs featured two articles highlighting surprising trends related to the nursing workforce. We have already...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Study Finds Surge In Young Nurses Over Past Decade

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Yesterday, the USA TODAY reported the results of a recent study that found between 2002 & 2009, the number of full-time-equivalent regi...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Nebraska Still Grappling With Nursing Shortage

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Last week, Joanne Young, reporting for the Lincoln Journal Star , detailed Nebraska's efforts to reduce nursing shortages that are plagu...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Health Care Taps The Brake On Job Creation

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On Monday, Reed Abelson & Katie Thomas, of the New York Times , wrote an interesting guest piece in The Seattle Times discussing the he...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Nursing Programs Continue To Expand To Meet The Needs Of The Changing Roles Of Nurses

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Last week, Elizabeth Donald, of the Bellville News Democrat, reported that Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) has established ...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Nursing Industry Facing A Critical Shortage

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The looming nursing shortage is a topic of interest we have covered in the past, yet news stories covering this topic still make their way o...