Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) has launched the Center for Nursing Excellence in Long-Term CareTM in an effort to help meet the demand for health care providers, especially nurses, that has been created by the world's aging population.
The RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the IOM has released the workshop summary of the second, in a series of three forums. The December forum, held at the Community College of Philadelphia, continued the examination of the challenges facing the nursing profession: care in the community, community health, public health, primary care, and long-term care.
The Center to Champion Nursing in America is seeking high quality, original photos that accurately portray 21st century nursing. The goal is to create a repository of photos of nurses across all health care settings in professional practice and leadership roles, as well as in recruitment and retention activities, and nursing education.
One winning photograph will be featured in an AARP print and/or web publication. All qualified photos will make up CCNA’s new public repository of images.
Today, President Obama signed a package of health care reforms that will bring needed relief to millions of Americans struggling with the high cost of prescription drugs and health coverage. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 will close Medicare’s prescription drug coverage gap for everyone in the program and make insurance more affordable for more American families.
The John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Penn State wants to tell you why. A series of videos were produced explicitly for this purpose. Take a look at these three videos:
Newly graduated registered nurses are being asked to consider long-term care as the place to begin their careers. The reason? The current downturn in the economy has caused many nurses to continue working instead of retiring. And, many of these nurses work in acute care settings where new graduates are looking for employment, so vacancies rates are very low.
Newly graduated nurses are finding the job market tight for them as they begin to compete with more experienced registered nurses (RNs) who have continued to work because of the economy. This is according to a California Institute for Nursing & Health Care paper. Positions typically available to new nurses are scarce because fewer nurses are retiring and many others continue to work part-time. This situation is only worsened due to cut backs on new hires by hospitals and health systems.
