© John Kropewnicki – Fotolia.com Nurses in Montgomery, Alabama rallied in support of a bill that increase the number of teaching scholarships available. Over 3500 nursing students were turned away because there was not room for them in class in the past year. The nurses at the rally said that one of...
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The Texas Health Care Association said that Texas’s skilled nursing facility sector will continue to be a significant source of new jobs throughout the state in an article in the Bradenton Herald. They cited a new report from the U.S. Department of Labor which projects that the health care and socia...
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An article in the Las Cruces Sun-News notes that a report released recently by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that now through 2020 should be a good time for people in the health care field. In the list of jobs that should show growth during that period, registered nurses placed at the ver...
Read more →The New York Times has an article about how nursing school students are likely to reach for their smart phones when asked about a drug interaction. They don’t need to memorize this stuff anymore — they can just go ahead and look it up at a moment’s notice. Educators say that it’s not that the nursin...
Read more →A new regulation went into effect January 1st, 2012, setting industry-wide standards for electronic funds transfers in healthcare, as required by the Affordable Care Act. It will reduce up to $4.5 billion over the next 10 years in administrative costs, according to estimates published yesterday by t...
Read more →When researchers took a look at the number of new students entering nursing school, they were pleasantly surprised to learn that the nursing shortage may not be as bad as they once predicted it would be when the baby boomer nurses begin to retire or leave the profession. Dr. David I. Auerbach conduc...
Read more →A study published in June of 2000 in the Journal of the American Medical Association painted a pretty bleak picture of the future of nursing. Of particular concern was whether there would be enough nurses to go around by the year 2020. They projected that there would be 20% fewer nurses than would a...
Read more →Nebraska is concerned about the nursing shortage, and especially the fact that is likely to worsen over the next decade. Juliann Sebastian, dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, says that this shortage is different because of the large number of aging Nebraskans, and...
Read more →The Cook County Health and Hospitals system in Illinois has numerous vacant positions — estimates range from 800 to 1415 — but even in this period of high unemployment, the positions remain unfilled. The New York Times examined why that is: According to Marisa Kollias, a spokeswoman for the system,...
Read more →There’s no denying that the economic struggles in the U.S. have made it difficult for some professionals to find work, and that the U.S. unemployment rate remains high. Despite these trends, careers in the medical field continue to be highly regarded for their stability and long-term demand. Registe...
Read more →Congress is negotiating trillions of dollars in budget cuts as a condition for authorizing a raise in the debt ceiling. The deadline for the raise is August 2nd and, according to the Treasury Department, if the raise is not approved, the U.S. will not be able to pay off its debt obligations. How doe...
Read more →In an effort to curb rising health care costs, major employers across the country are opening their own health centers where doctors and nurses provide medical care to their workers. This cost cutting strategy has been adopted by dozens of companies; usually large employers that are self-insured and...
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