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Scholarship Program Now Open to Allied Health Students
Thursday, October 15, 2009
$15,000 in Scholarships Available to Nursing & Allied Health Students
Allied Health Students are now eligible to apply for the Nursing Scholarships. Launched in 2008, the scholarship program was previously open to only nursing students, but has now expanded to include those pursueing a career as allied health professionals as well.
“Due to the tremendous success of the 2009 CampusRN Scholarship Program, we are pleased to continue to the scholarship program in 2010. With the shortages of healthcare professionals in all areas of expertise, we felt it important to expand the program to include allied health students in addition to nursing students.” says CEO & Founder, Matt Casey.
The scholarship program is the most comprehensive of its kind for students pursuing a career in healthcare. Six $2500 scholarships will are awarded annually to need and deserving students from regions across the country.
Students can apply directly at: Allied Health Scholarship
The deadline for applications is April 1st
Read what the winners of the 2009 Nursing Scholarship have to say at:
http://www.campusrn.com/network/scholarship_winners
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Nursing I.T. Award Deadline Dec. 2
Monday, October 26, 2009
The deadline for nominations for Health Data Management’s fifth annual Nursing Information Technology Innovation Award is Dec. 2.
The award recognizes innovation and excellence in using information technology in the field of nursing to directly improve the quality of care and patient safety while maximizing nursing resources.
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Nursing I.T. Award Nominations Sought
Monday, October 19, 2009
The award will be presented to a team of nursing professionals at a health care organization (hospital, physician group practice or any other care-giving site). At least one of the primary coordinators of the I.T. project must be a nurse. The project must be ongoing.
To qualify for this award, a health care organization must submit an essay with detailed information on the nursing information technology project and the specific, measurable results of that project. The contribution of nurses to the innovative project must be clearly identified.
Judges, who will include nurses, will interview finalists by phone before determining the award recipient. The March 2010 issue of the magazine will include a story on the winning organization and runners-up.
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Panasonic develops robot to help nurses
Sunday, October 18, 2009
PANASONIC CORP. (TSE:6752) said Thursday that it has developed an assist cart robot that can help move wheelchairs and medical equipment around inside hospitals. The new robot employs the same motor and battery technologies used for motorized bicycles.
* Panasonic envisions the robot being used to help move objects like hospital beds and medicine carts, or attached to wheelchairs to pull them around.
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DaVita is Hiring RNs
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Welcome to the DaVita Village.
village of teammates, working together towards a common vision to be the greatest dialysis company the world has ever seen! Hopefully, you are asking yourself, “What do they mean, Village?” The answer is what makes DaVita truly unique. We believe a company can also be a community. We believe that service comes from the heart as well as the hands. We believe that values live in actions, not in proclamations. We believe that committed individuals can actually make a difference in the way healthcare is practiced in this country. And we believe we have the courage and tenacity to pursue this vision. This is why our teammates have chosen to be citizens of what we are proud to call the DaVita Village. Now that you know how different we are. we’d like to tell you about how successful our approach is. With over 28,000 teammates, 1,300 outpatient dialysis facilities and 800+ in-hospital acute units, DaVita is the largest independent kidney care provider in the United States. Over 100,000 patients - approx. one third of all Americans receiving dialysis services - depend on us for high quality, specialized prevention and treatment services. We are committed to helping our patients live the very best lives they can. In fact, DaVita means “he/she gives life.” We live up to our name by consistently receiving better patient outcomes than the national average which is the true measure of our success.
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Nursing unions and national healthcare
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Unions are very important and were originally designed to protect workers from unscrupulous employers. Thank goodness, over the years, federal and state laws have been written specifically designed to protect workers’ rights. Without unions, this never would have happened.
Unions have a very specific template to initiate action. First, a demand is made. If negotiations with management fail, then a strike follows. These strikes cause great hardship to workers and corporations. Some workers permanently lose their jobs and many corporations are irreversibly crippled. Nobody wins.
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Risks and benefits: changing the nursing skill mix
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Healthcare assistants have taken on more and more core nursing tasks in recent years. Sally Gainsbury investigates the impact of this blurring of professional boundaries in the current economic climate
As the biggest single part of the NHS pay bill it was inevitable that talk of reducing NHS costs would quickly make its way around to discussions of skill mix among the nursing workforce.
Although the confidential McKinsey report on NHS cost saving, seen by Nursing Times earlier this month, did not actually use the term “skill mix” it did suggest the Department of Health urgently “limit or remove” mandatory staffing ratios which stipulate the number of registered nurses to patients a ward should have.
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New AACN Data Show the Impact of the Economy on the Nurse Faculty Shortage
Friday, September 18, 2009
New data collected by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
show that the downturn in the economy may be impacting the nurse faculty
shortage by lowering the national vacancy rate. Based on data received from 554
schools of nursing in the U.S. with baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs
(70.2% response rate), the nurse faculty vacancy rate in 2009 was 6.6%, down
from 7.6% in 2008. Many schools point to changes in faculty retirement patterns
and hiring freezes at academic institutions as reasons for this presumably
short-term easing of the shortage.
“Though AACN is pleased to see a lower faculty vacancy rate this year, we fully
expect the shortage of nurse educators to re-emerge when the U.S. economy
rallies and faculty retirement patterns resume,” said AACN President Fay Raines.
“Over the next 15 years, workforce analysts project that the nation`s nursing
shortage will grow twice as large as any shortage experienced in this country
since the mid-1960s, and this will no doubt impact the supply of nurse faculty.”
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DaVita is Hiring RNs
Monday, September 14, 2009
Welcome to the DaVita Village.
A village of teammates, working together towards a common vision to be the greatest dialysis company the world has ever seen! Hopefully, you are asking yourself, “What do they mean, Village?” The answer is what makes DaVita truly unique. We believe a company can also be a community. We believe that service comes from the heart as well as the hands. We believe that values live in actions, not in proclamations. We believe that committed individuals can actually make a difference in the way healthcare is practiced in this country. And we believe we have the courage and tenacity to pursue this vision. This is why our teammates have chosen to be citizens of what we are proud to call the DaVita Village. Now that you know how different we are. we’d like to tell you about how successful our approach is. With over 28,000 teammates, 1,300 outpatient dialysis facilities and 800+ in-hospital acute units, DaVita is the largest independent kidney care provider in the United States. Over 100,000 patients - approx. one third of all Americans receiving dialysis services - depend on us for high quality, specialized prevention and treatment services. We are committed to helping our patients live the very best lives they can. In fact, DaVita means “he/she gives life.” We live up to our name by consistently receiving better patient outcomes than the national average which is the true measure of our success.
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Nurses’ Orders: New ‘Super-Union’ Pushes for Healthcare Reform
Friday, September 11, 2009
The progressive talking points for universal healthcare are often framed around the interests of patients. But one sector of the medical workforce is driving a movement at the intersection of organized labor and healthcare policy: nurses.
While lawmakers bicker and the public wades through a muddle of misinformation, the major nurses unions, particularly the California Nurses Association (CNA), are staking out bold positions on reform. Their efforts have culminated in a new union merger that seeks to align progressive nurses with other service workers as well as healthcare consumers.
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