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Bottom Lines: Reform likely to heighten demand for nurse practitioners
Monday, November 09, 2009
Health care reform of some sort is likely to become law and add millions - probably tens of millions - of patients in the nation when there is already a shortage of general practitioners among doctors.
Some of that extra care will be provided by a health care professional familiar to few people: the nurse practitioner.
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Gould honored for work with minority nurse candidates
Monday, October 26, 2009
Wallena Gould, a certified registered nurse anesthetist at South Jersey Healthcare System in Vineland, was honored Monday by Los Angeles-based Cherokee Uniforms with one of its six annual awards for health-care professionals nationwide.
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Rutgers Announces Plans to Create a School of Nursing at the Rutgers–Camden Campus
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
CAMDEN – Rutgers is launching the planning process for a comprehensive School of Nursing at the Rutgers–Camden Campus, Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick announced today.
When the plans are complete later this fall, the proposal to establish the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden will be brought before the Rutgers Board of Governors, the New Jersey Presidents Council, and the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education. Rutgers–Camden currently offers an upper-division nursing major through the Department of Nursing within the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Community Visiting Nurse Association’s Telemedicine Program is technology at its best
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Patients are responding positively and with much enthusiasm over Community Visiting Nurse Association’s Telemedicine program.
As part of the Chronic Disease Care Management program, Telemedicine gives patients a proactive role in managing their own health and wellness from their home via technology that is literally at their fingertips, explained Community VNA, which serves both Somerset and Middlesex counties.
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N.J. Nursing Professor to Help RNs Transition to Faculty
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Transitioning from clinical practice to an academic role can be fraught with challenges. Sigma Theta Tau International’s new Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development Program aims to support novice nurse educators as they learn the art of teaching and build successful, rewarding faculty careers.
“So many new faculty come into the role and are quite overwhelmed with it,” says D. Anthony “Tony” Forrester, RN, PhD, ANEF, a professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Nursing in Newark. He also is a professor in residence and interdisciplinary health research consultant at Morristown (N.J.) Memorial Hospital and an expert faculty member for the Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development Program.
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N.Y. and N.J. Consider BSN Requirement
Monday, September 07, 2009
For several decades, the education standards for entry into nursing practice have generated spirited discussion among nurses and legislators alike. That discussion is sure to heat up once again with BSN in 10 bills on the floor in both the New York and New Jersey state legislatures. The bills would require all newly licensed RNs to obtain a BSN within 10 years of initial licensure.
If signed into law, the proposals will have a lasting impact on the nursing profession. There are a number of concerns about what the passage of the two bills would mean for the schools of nursing in New York and New Jersey, that, like the rest of the country, already are turning potential candidates away because of faculty shortages. Concern over the fate of ADN and diploma programs also is a major issue, as is the potential monetary burden that could be placed upon nurses to fulfill the BSN education requirement.
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Meridian Health is Hiring PTs
Friday, August 28, 2009
Discover the dynamism and career possibilities of a multifaceted, multi-location leader in regional health care, providing a full spectrum of services to New Jersey’s Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Formed in 1997, our expanding system currently consists of three respected hospitals - Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Ocean Medical Center, and Riverview Medical Center - whose traditions of service excellence extend back to the early 1900s, nursing homes/long-term care facilities, assisted-living facilities, home care services, wellness/fitness centers, physician practices, day care centers, medical goods/equipment retail stores and outpatient mental health services.
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New incentives for patient care
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A three-year study is under way at a dozen New Jersey hospitals — including Monmouth Medical Center, Jersey Shore University Medical Center and CentraState Medical Center — to see if paying doctors to cut costs is an effective way to save hospitals money. More than 500 physicians have agreed to participate.
It’s worth a shot. The multi-headed monster of out-of-control health care costs has to be fought with every fiscal tool in the arsenal as long as patient care isn’t compromised by bean-counters and people looking to goose the bottom line.
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Cumberland County College to introduce practical nursing program this fall
Friday, August 14, 2009
VINELAND - Cumberland County College is preparing to introduce its new practical nursing program this fall.
The school recently announced that the one-year program was approved by the New Jersey Board of Nursing. In all, 30 students will comprise the program’s inaugural class, with 20 students taking classes during the day time and 10 working to complete the program at night.
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N.J. Nursing Schools Receive RWJF Grant to Educate Faculty
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
In an effort to stem the nurse faculty shortage in New Jersey, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded Monmouth University in West Long Branch, Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, and Bloomfield College a four-year $2.5 million grant to educate future nurse faculty members. The grant is part of RWJF’s $22 million, five-year New Jersey Nursing Initiative, an effort to increase the number of nurse faculty available to educate the next generation of nurses in the state.
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