Two sets of numbers came out this spring, and they only make sense read together. The first is unambiguously good news. Applications to nursing school are surging. Entry-level bachelor's enrollment rose 7.6%, to 283,303 students. After years of anxious talk about whether anyone still wants this job,...
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You might have heard already about Faye Lewis. The first job Faye did was serving fried chicken at KFC. She worked her way up to manager, even as she raised her son AJ and enrolled in college. Got a job as a Housekeeper at an Assisted Living Facility. Completed her CNA training. Went on to complete...
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We are pleased to announce that we have selected Emily Petersen, a nursing student at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut, as the next recipient of our NurseRecruiter.com Scholarship grant. With the NurseRecruiter Scholarship, we want to encourage promising future nurses who...
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Last month, the New York state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo approved legislation requiring registered nurses to attain a bachelor’s degree or higher in nursing within ten years of their initial licensure. The legislation exempts registered nurses already licensed in New York as well as stud...
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Since we launched the NurseRecruiter.com Scholarship a few months ago, we have received hundreds of applications from some amazing and brilliant people who all share a passion for helping others and improving themselves and the world by becoming a nurse. It certainly wasn’t easy to select just one t...
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A hospital system in Northern Texas has been offering hundreds of its employees the chance to go to nursing school and get an associate degree in nursing — for free, Dallas News reported this week. Medical City Healthcare, which runs 13 hospitals, will pay for their tuition, fees, books and uniforms...
Read more →There has been more and more emphasis on increased education for nurses. It's becoming increasingly common for employers to require that nurses go back to school to receive more education. Nurses are also calling for their peers to gain more education as a way to make their voices heard. The MSN deg...
Read more →dekanaryas – Fotolia.com Nurse Residency Program Makes Stronger Nurses New nurses in their first orientation program can expect to learn routines that are specific to their employer, and the policies and procedures associated with their job. They will check off competencies and compliance as they co...
Read more →There has been a 76% increase since 2007 in the number of registered nurses who are in bachelor’s of science degree programs nationwide, according to this article in the Columbus Dispatch, citing numbers from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. In Ohio, the increase is even more dramati...
Read more →A recent Nurse-Family Partnership discussion outlined in Nurse.com sought to identify barriers to creating a more ethnically diverse workforce, as well as figuring out ways to create a more ethnically diverse workforce. Rob – Fotolia.com Several nursing leaders participated in the discussion, includ...
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jumdero – Fotolia.com More and more hospitals are requiring that their nurses have at least a bachelor’s degree in nursing, according to this article in the New York Times. Jennifer Matton, for example, is working as a nurse right now. However she is working at a hospital that has the bachelor’s deg...
Read more →Robin Holte was an interior designer for 25 years. Then she decided to return to college and become a registered nurse. She wasn’t considering job security at the time; she wanted to make more of an impact, helping people and caring for them, she says in this article on the Appleton Post-Crescent we...
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