Archive for August, 2008

Health Professionals Partner to Help Ease Nursing Faculty Shortage – WLBT-TV

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Health Professionals Partner to Help Ease Nursing Faculty ShortageWLBT-TV, MS - 6 minutes agoAnd medical professionals say a shortage of nursing faculty means that many students are turned away from nursing schools. They say that's one of the …

Health Professionals Partner to Help Ease Nursing Faculty Shortage (WLBT 3 Jackson)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Anyone in the profession will tell you, nursing is a calling. Take Eloise Lopez, a single mom who worked two jobs so she could go to nursing school. Now, she’s in the master’s program at University Medical Center’s School of Nursing in Jackson.

Insanities (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

The logic of Catch-22 was absurdly brilliant. From Joseph Heller’s novel explaining the concept.

Groups Target Nursing School Bottleneck to Address Medical … – Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Groups Target Nursing School Bottleneck to Address Medical …Journal of American Medical Association (subscription), IL - 6 minutes agoA new collaboration hopes to expand the capacity of US nursing schools. (Photo credit: AP/Wide World Photos) In late June, the AARP (formerly the American …

Philippine Daily Inquirer – Inquirer.net

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Philippine Daily InquirerInquirer.net, Philippines - 15 minutes agoI don’t know of any country today that has turned whole universities into nursing schools, or turned entire departments into adjuncts of the nursing one. …

Students protest end of midwife program (Miami Herald)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

About 30 Miami Dade College students and their supporters showed up Monday at MDC President Eduardo J. Padrón’s office to protest the cancellation of the midwifery degree program.

When nurses are away, trainees will play – The Post

Monday, August 25th, 2008

The PostWhen nurses are away, trainees will playThe Post, Pakistan - 3 minutes agoHowever, these students including first-year scholars of Nursing Schools are being forced to do night jobs, which are causing problems for patients and …

MDC midwife students protest program’s demise (Miami Herald)

Monday, August 25th, 2008

About 30 Miami Dade College students and their supporters are expected to protest the cancellation of the midwifery degree program.

Illinois Explores New Option to Reduce RN Shortage – Nurse.com

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Illinois Explores New Option to Reduce RN ShortageNurse.com, VA - 18 minutes agoDesigned to connect nursing schools and healthcare facilities by placing available student clinicians in facilities with corresponding clinical needs, …

VA care for ‘priority 8′ vets tied to reform (Montgomery Advertiser)

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Congress is moving to re­ open the VA health care system to many more thousands of Priority Group 8 veterans — those who aren’t poor, at least by government standards, and have no service-related ailments.