Elizabeth Scannell-Desch, an associate dean for the Rutgers University School of Nursing-Camden, has been selected as one of three New Jersey nursing professionals to be inducted as Fellows in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). She is a noted scholar […]
For the last 12 years, Camille Prevost, RN, has worked as a travel nurse. This means that she works for a company via contract which then is contracted with a health care facility. Travel nurses work as temp staff nurses,
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The University of Miami (UM) recently appointed Cindy Munro as the new dean of the School of Nursing and Health Studies (SONHS). Munro is an accomplished researcher and leader in the field of nursing and her work has helped change
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While people in the United States still use Western medicine, many are also doing so in conjunction with Eastern treatments used for centuries. Jennifer Bjork, MSN, RN, Clinical Educator and Interdisciplinary Partnership Council Site Coordinator at Sutter Maternity and Surgery
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The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) recently announced a new Doctor of Nursing Practice/Doctor of Philosophy (DNP/PhD) dual degree program which combines the competencies and practice opportunities of the DNP degree with the clinical research and scientific rigor of
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In early June, the US House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee introduced legislation reauthorizing the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV). The program was enacted under the Affordable Care Act to fund efforts to pair new
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The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) College of Nursing recently received a $1.2 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to provide specialized training to students in the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse
According to a recent report on job growth in June 2017, the US economy added 222,000 new jobs over the last month, maintaining an unemployment rate of 4.4 percent as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Healthcare was the biggest
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In March 2016, Sutter Health and WellSpace Health started The Street Nurse Program. Funded by Sutter Health, the program is geared to meet the needs of an underserved population—those affected by homelessness—in Sacramento, California. To date, it has helped more
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Herzing University recently received 10 years of continuing accreditation for its online nursing programs, the maximum accreditation period offered by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The accredited programs include the online RN to BSN program, Master of Science
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