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Rapid Growth in Nurses with Baccalaureate Degrees
Jun 10, 2015
At the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, we really like data, and we couldn’t let this number slip by without highlighting it for you. For the first time, the number of nurses graduating with a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN), including RN-to-BSN graduates, is higher than the number of nurses graduating with an entry-level associate’s more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Easier Transfers Will Help Mass. Nurses Advance Educations
May 15, 2015
Beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year, nurses and nursing students seeking to advance their educations at Massachusetts public colleges and universities will benefit from a more streamlined and less expensive process for transferring credits. The recently finalized Nursing Education Transfer Policy (NETP) creates a seamless, cost-effective, more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts
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Using the American Community Survey to Describe the Registered Nurse Workforce
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The American Community Survey (ACS) is a national household survey administered by the U.S. Census Bureau, designed to collect social, demographic, and economic information describing the U.S. civilian population. As the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) is no longer conducted, the ACS is the best alternative available for analysis of more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Increasing Diversity in Nursing Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Your Action Coalition: Multiply Through Messaging
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Hosted on February 18, 2015: Jumpstart 2015 with a recruitment drive that’s powered by tried and tested messages in this webinar, “Your Action Coalition: Multiply Through Messaging.” Learn how to reach and engage diverse nursing audiences-(1) young nurses, (2) experienced nurses with ADNs, (3) African-American and/or Latino nurses, and (4) new Action more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Report: Nursing Faculty Workforce Challenges in Massachusetts
Dec 15, 2014
Massachusetts higher education and health care leaders have been working on initiatives to advance and expand the nursing workforce, with the goal of raising the percentage of Registered Nurses with a BSN or higher from 55% to 66% by 2020. Achieving this goal is contingent upon many factors, such as classroom and laboratory facilities, clinical more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts
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Mass. Health Care Employers Surveyed on Activities to Promote Advanced Education, Diversity in Nursing Workforce
Dec 10, 2014
According to a survey of Massachusetts health care employers, 90 percent of acute care hospitals have a formal goal to increase the proportion of nurses with bachelor’s degrees (BSN) in their workforce, but fewer than half require new hires or current nursing staff to achieve that level. The 2013 survey of Massachusetts health care employers — more
Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts
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The Top Five Issues for Nursing in 2015
Dec 02, 2014
In 2013, the Institute of Medicine released a report, U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, that compared the United States with 16 other affluent nations. The United States ranked last or near last on nine key indicators: infant mortality and low birth weight; injuries and homicides; teenage pregnancies and sexually more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: National
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Transforming Nursing Education
Jul 16, 2014
More highly educated nursing workforce needed to provide more complex patient care, experts say. Many registered nurses (RNs) start—and finish—their post-secondary education with an associate degree in nursing (ADN). But health care experts want more nurses to see the ADN as a first step on a career-long educational journey. “Our goal is to improve more
Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National New York Texas Wyoming