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2008-06-10 15:51
The nursing shortage is hitting Florida big time, but there is a different twist happening over there. RN programs are getting many applicants all the time, but they are looking for nurses with advanced training. The problem the older nurses are retiring which make up most of the nurses with...
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2008-06-10 15:50
State officials have been talking about the nursing shortage for awhile now. Oklahoma may be in one of the worst conditions and is expected to be short of over 3000 nurses by 2012. Colleges aren't helping since they don't simply have space for these nurses. The number of senior citizens are also...
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2008-05-30 21:26
It looks like the University of South Alabama has officially upgraded their nursing facilities with brand new equipment and space. There's even a virtual simulator that aids students in delivering babies. That's definitely something I've never heard before.
The school currently graduates 225...
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2008-05-30 21:26
Everyone knows about the airline simulators and racing simulators, but do you know you can actually practice delivering a baby or treating a gunshot wound? Well there's a simulator called the iStan that is so realistic that what you deal with feels like real human skin and even bleeds with a...
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2008-05-22 17:30
Penn State has finally caught up with the other big schools and separated the nursing program into it's own school. This means the nursing school will now have their own dean and will operate separately from other health programs. This means they will be able to increase enrollment with the extra...
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2008-05-22 17:22
It looks like Texas is acting big in getting the nursing shortage under control. They have created a new nursing school with the support of the state and the texas university system. Texas State University will house this new nursing program in Round Rock.
We are now seeing more and more school...
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2008-05-15 17:50
Imagine if you're a hardworking students who gets a equal mixture of As and Bs, but finds that you are mot of the applying group gets rejected. This happened at the CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo. 312 students applied but only 276 were accepted.
This problem is that it is a public school and...
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2008-05-15 17:49
Many hospitals around the nation are fighting the nursing shortage. To make it even worse, it is calculated that over 42K qualified students were turned away from nursing schools in the 2006 to 2007 school year because there wasn't enough space to take them. Now we start to see where the real...
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2008-05-15 17:49
A dean of a very popular nursing college says that the nursing field needs to fix many problems for it to be more attractive to more people. It turns out that the job is stressful thanks to a shortage of nurses to help out. Hospitals needs to increase salaries if they want to provide adequate care...
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2008-05-15 17:49
Franklin Pierce University recently received a federal grant for the nursing program. This is a program to try to curb the growing nursing shortage that is lingering. The grant was 146,000 dollars and is focused on offering nurses advanced degrees. This is because a recent study showed that the...
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