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In Massachusetts, Future Health Care Needs Guide Nursing Education

Submitted by bakinwole on Oct 6, 2009
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Oct 6, 2009

The practice of nursing has been defined by change over the last decade. Innovations in technology and health care management have increased the demands made on nurses, and an aging baby boom generation is creating an urgent need for legions of new nurses with expanded skills. These nurses must provide the primary and preventive care, chronic care management and care coordination necessary to care for these older Americans, while keeping costs low and quality high.

Oct 6, 2009

In Florida, a Detailed Picture of the Nursing Shortage Leads to Smarter Solutions

Submitted by bakinwole on Oct 6, 2009
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Oct 6, 2009

Ever since the philosophical debate over how many teeth were in a horse’s mouth was settled by actually counting them, evidence-based research has been the cornerstone of good science and sound policy. This is exactly what’s happening at the Florida Center for Nursing in Orlando, where a veteran nurse administrator and a sociologist are setting the standard for how to measure a state’s nursing shortage with a precision that results in targeted solutions.

Oct 6, 2009

Wednesday Feature: Nursing Education - Clinical Practicum, Villanova University College of Nursing

Submitted by bakinwole on Sep 20, 2011
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Sep 21, 2011

In this picture, a senior nursing clinical student from Villanova University College of Nursing in Villanova, PA, gives instructions to a patient during her clinical practicum in April 2011. The practicum gives students experience providing nursing care to community members in the home health setting.

RWJF Launches Miniseries to Stimulate Dialogue on Importance of IOM Future of Nursing Report Recommendations

Submitted by bakinwole on Sep 12, 2011
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Sep 12, 2011
Sep 12, 2011

Using the August 2011 issue of its Charting Nursing’s Future, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) published the first a four-part miniseries brief designed to stimulate conversation on the important areas of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.

Creating a 21st Century Nursing Workforce to Care for Older Americans: Modernizing Medicare Support for Nursing Education

Submitted by bakinwole on Jun 24, 2011
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Oct 1, 2009
Oct 1, 2009

A discussion of how Medicare support for health care workforce education likewise could shift to better prepare the workforce to meet the evolving health care needs of older Americans is addressed in this AARP/PPI Insight on Issues publication .

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Nursing in America

WEBINAR: Getting to 80% Baccalaureate by 2020 - Midwestern Region

Submitted by bakinwole on Jun 16, 2011
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Equip and Empower for Educational Transformation: Getting to 80% Baccalaureate by 2020
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Jul 7, 2011

WEBINAR: Getting to 80% Baccalaureate by 2020 - Southeast Region

Submitted by bakinwole on Jun 16, 2011
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Jul 7, 2011
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Jul 7, 2011

Equip and Empower for Educational Transformation: Getting to 80% Baccalaureate by 2020
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Jul 7, 2011

WEBINAR: Getting to 80% Baccalaureate by 2020 - Western Region

Submitted by bakinwole on Jun 15, 2011
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Jun 29, 2011
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Jun 29, 2011

Equip and Empower for Educational Transformation: Getting to 80% Baccalaureate by 2020
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Jun 29, 2011

WEBINAR: Northeast Educational Transformation

Submitted by bakinwole on Apr 8, 2011
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Apr 13, 2011

Resource Guides for State Teams based on the webinar:

Powerpoint presentations for the webinar:

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Nursing in America

Accelerated Nursing Program Helps Increase Minority Enrollment

Submitted by bakinwole on Apr 4, 2011
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Apr 4, 2011

According the administration at the Georgia Health Sciences University, the minority enrollment in its nursing school program has increased by 16 percent since introducing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Careers in Nursing (NCIN) program into it curriculum in 2006. NCIN is one of several fast-track programs that offer nurses an opportunity to expedite their training. Program officials say NCIN and similar programs as vital to addressing the nursing shortage, and NCIN funds are used specifically to increase gender and ethnic representation in the nursing profession.

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