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New nurse organization fights health disparities
Monday, November 23, 2009
Obesity, heart disease and diabetes were just some of the issues nurses with the Mississippi Gulf Coast Black Nurse Association were tackling this weekend. They know their work is critical to helping a community disproportionately impacted by these diseases compared to other parts of the country.
“There’s just an explosion and the explosion relates to cost,” said Deborah Toney, the National Black Nurse Association President. “We know that’s at the heart of it all, but the system is not set up to deal with issues related to chronic disease.”
With the debate over healthcare reform at a feverish pitch, the president of the National Black Nurse Association believes now more than ever, nurses have to be informed and ready to handle the new challenges facing the healthcare industry.
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Nurses searching for cures for rising health care concerns
Friday, October 23, 2009
More than 1,100 registered nurses and nursing students are attending the 98th Annual Mississippi Nurses Association Convention in Biloxi. The nurses are networking and sharing ideas to help deal with ongoing problems, along with new ones that erupted this year.
“Doc, I feel like I could die,” said the pretend patient.
The computerized mannequin can cough, breathe and complain of ailments just like a real patient. The demonstration is among the 100 exhibits that give nurses a peak at the latest tools and topics in the healthcare industry.
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College Board gives final approval to EMCC nursing degree
Sunday, October 18, 2009
MAYHEW — The state College Board has granted final approval for an associate degree nursing program at East Mississippi Community College’s Golden Triangle campus.
The unanimous decision came Thursday morning during a regular meeting of the board of the Institutions of Higher Learning at Alcorn State University.
“We appreciate the board’s support of our new ADN program, and the support of the medical community throughout the application process. With an aging baby boomer population and a critical nursing shortage, it’s going to be a good thing for the state,” said EMCC President Dr. Rick Young.
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Program gives future nurses a head start
Monday, September 14, 2009
The future looks clear to Moriah Carpenter, an Oak Grove High School senior who is also enrolled in the practical nursing program at Pearl River Community College.
She’ll finish high school next spring, complete the program at PRCC’s Forrest County Center in December 2010 and go to work as a licensed practical nurse while studying to be a nurse practitioner.
“I think it will all pay off in the long run,” Carpenter said.
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PRCC program gives future nurses head start
Friday, September 04, 2009
The future looks clear to Moriah Carpenter, an Oak Grove High School senior who is also enrolled in the practical nursing program at Pearl River Community College.
She’ll finish high school next spring, complete the program at PRCC’s Forrest County Center in December 2010 and go to work as a licensed practical nurse while studying to be a nurse practitioner.
“I think it will all pay off in the long run,” Carpenter said.
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New MGCCC nursing program chairwoman aims to continue success of the school
Monday, August 31, 2009
Joan Hendrix has found her career as a nurse and later as a nursing instructor very satisfying.
“In the nursing arena, you are not there for the money or for the fame,” she said. “You are there to help people who are not able to help themselves. I still feel that I am able to help others as a nurse through other individuals that are trying to grow themselves in the profession.”
Hendrix has been an instructor in the Associate Degree Nursing program at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s, Jackson County campus, for eight years. She recently was named the new Associate Degree Nursing Department chairwoman on that Gautier campus.
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USM School of Nursing welcomes inaugural doctoral class
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The University of Southern Mississippi School of Nursing recently welcomed the first students in a new program designed to take health care practice to a higher level.
Ten full-time students comprise the inaugural class of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program. Unlike the traditional research-based Ph.D in nursing program, whose focus is on knowledge generation, the DNP model ensures that evidenced-based knowledge makes its way in the health care arena.
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Health care reform won’t satisfy all
Friday, August 14, 2009
Health care reform news is popping up everywhere, in unprecedented places.
Television, health insurance ads, news venues, on my cell phone with an unsolicited phone ad and recently in email with an en masse “Chicken Little” blog scenario of reform vignettes propelled by conservative zealots.
So it started me thinking, what are the basic tenets, the key elements of the health care reform proposals? Sorting out an evolving giant piece of legislation is like measuring a moving iceberg with above and below factors.
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Mississippians’ ponder health-care reform
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
As elected officials in Washington work out details of a proposed health-care reform plan, Mississippians are watching - some hopeful, some fearful - of possible changes in a state with more than half-a-million uninsured residents.
While some see a chance to free more families from the burden of large health-care costs, others foresee new burdens for small business owners or too much government control of health care.
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Mental-health fund shortfall a surprise
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The head of the state Department of Mental Health plans to meet today with Gov. Haley Barbour regarding the $30 million shortfall in funding for Mississippi’s 15 community mental health centers.
Some lawmakers “thought there was money in the budget that was not there,” Ed LeGrand, executive director of the Department of Mental Health, said Monday. “They realize now they did not have all the information.”
Department officials hope to get backing from Barbour and lawmakers for a plan to borrow against the fiscal year’s second half of appropriations to make up for the deficit. Under the plan, lawmakers would reimburse the department after they return in January.
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