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Monday, January 30, 2012
Julie Wells, 43, of Mohawk, was looking for a career where she would be able to find a job, have benefits and enough income to support her family.
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Julie Wells, 43, of Mohawk, was looking for a career where she would be able to find a job, have benefits and enough income to support her family.
She decided to go into health care, a field she has worked in for 23 years. Wells is a nurse manager of maternal child services at Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare.
“I knew in nursing I would always be able to find a job,” Wells said. “I think there are still opportunities in health care. In some fields it’s very difficult, if this is where you want to live, for jobs.”
Wells is right on target.
In the Utica-Rome area, other than government jobs, health care is at the top of the list. Manufacturing, and hospitality and entertainment, also employ large numbers of workers, said Dave Mathis, director for Oneida County Workforce Development.
These major industries don’t seem to be changing anytime soon.
Businesses in health care industries, for example, employed 22,205 workers in the Utica-Rome area in 2011, a number that increased 113 from 2010, according to data from Mark Barbano, state Labor Department regional analyst.
And the prediction is health care will continue to grow as the population ages.
Jobs have been a major issue across the nation, with the unemployment rate standing at 8.5 percent. In the Mohawk Valley, unemployment rates and industries have not seen drastic changes.
“This area has been kind of interesting because we never get to the big highs in terms of jobs, or big lows,” Mathis said. “We get along steadily.”
The annual average unemployment rate in the Utica-Rome area was 7.9 percent in 2010 and remained the same in 2011, compared to 8.6 percent statewide in 2010 and 8 percent in 2011, according to state Department of Labor data.
Total jobs in all area industries decreased 1.4 percent from 2010 to 2011 during the January through June time period, according to the data. It was down mainly due to a decrease in federal jobs because many temporary workers were hired for the census, Barbano said.
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Nurses will need four-year degree under new bill
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Under a new piece of legislation in New York’s Assembly, all new nurses in New York would need to earn a four-year Bachelor of Science of Nursing (BSN) degree - within 10 years of passage of the bill.
Under the initiative, dubbed “BSN in 10,” a two-year associate’s degree leading to Registered Nurse (RN) licensure would be sufficient for up to a decade.
Despite an ongoing nursing shortage, the measure has mostly garnered support from the medical community. The text of the measure was penned by the New York Organization of Nurse Executives (NYONE), and the New York Nurses Association has endorsed and will lobby for the bill’s passage in the upcoming legislative session.
While the “BSN in 10” movement is a few years old nationally, only recently did most of the nursing community come on board, says Judith Lewis, dean of the nursing program at D’Youville College in Buffalo.
Some two-year associates degree programs feared their curriculum could be rendered irrelevant if new requirements pushed students onto BSN tracks, according to Lewis.
“It will be like a pipeline between the associate degree programs into the baccalaureate programs. So I think all programs will flourish,” says Lewis.
“People are sicker today”
Only one-third current nurses attain a BSN degree or higher, according to University at Buffalo’s nursing dean Susan Grinsalde. Many nurses elect to forgo returning to school because salaries don’t tend to be much higher for those in the profession with four-year degrees.
Without this financial incentive, New York State needs to step in and require this extra education, says Grinslade.
“Patients are sicker today. They’re much more complex, they’re much more technical. It requires a different type of thinking, critical thinking and clinical reasoning to provide the best and safest in quality care,” Grinslade says.
Modern medical care necessitates nurses who can keep up with advances, says Grinslade, who’s quick to point out there’s nothing inherently flawed about with a two-year degree. After all, every nurse, regardless of education level, take the same exam for licensure.
“Better patient outcomes”
The decade-long timeline envisioned for nurses to achieve a BSN will allow those in the profession ample opportunity to return to the classroom with ease, Grinslade says.
“For example ... a single mom who doesn’t have a lot of money and doesn’t have a lot of resources, may be able to spread her education out a little bit more,” she says.
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New York, New Jersey See High Demand for CNSs
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Given the Institute of Medicine’s “Future of Nursing” report spelling out the essential role of nurse leaders in advancing evidence-based healthcare, clinical nurse specialists increasingly are in high demand, particularly in the critical care setting.
CNSs are key to developing the culture of quality mandated by healthcare reform that will help hospitals meet heightened requirements for reducing infection rates and improving outcomes, nurse leaders say.
The CNS role attracts nurses who love research and like to teach outside an academic environment. Their expertise is extremely specialized, they educate clinical staff, patients and families, and they help build staff satisfaction in their roles as mentors.
In New Jersey, where master’s degree nursing programs are heavily focused on nurse practitioners, CNSs are sometimes hard to find when openings arise.
Master’s programs for CNSs also were disappearing in New York, says Kimberly Glassman, RN, Phd, NEA-BC, senior vice president of patient care services and CNO at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan. But now, she says, universities are responding to renewed demand for these positions, and within the past few years have started to add the CNS master’s programs back in.
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NSANYS Annual Convention
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Nursing Students’ Association of New York State 2011 Annual Convention
DOUBLE TREE HOTEL
455 South Broadway
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Saturday, February 26th 2011
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Licensed Practical Nurse Jobs In New York
Monday, December 13, 2010
As a licensed practical nurse, you have put in your time and gotten a good education in hopes of finding a great job. Now you are ready to enter the workforce. If you are looking for licensed practical nurse jobs in New York, then you are in luck. LPN’s are widely needed in the state and city of New York. A great career awaits you.
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7th Annual 2011 Health Care Benefits New York Show & Conference
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
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New York Travel Nursing Jobs
Monday, November 29, 2010
Looking for a well-paying and trustable job opportunity in New York? Travel nursing can be the dream job of your choice if you pay enough concentration. This much hyped opportunity can give you a excellent nursing environment and the best earning prepositions.
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New nurse law a landmark step
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
New York’s new law making it a felony to physically harm a nurse ("Hurt a nurse, go to prison under new law,” Nov. 4) is a landmark step. Nurses work tirelessly to provide patients the best possible care, but the call of duty comes at a price. Nurses experience violence in the workplace more than any other profession.
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Being an ER nurse is ‘like living on the edge
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Countless number of patients pass through the emergency room doors every year and fall under the care of its nurses, doctors and staff.
“I enjoy participating with my local hospital because it’s a way of giving back to the community,” said Heather Swartz, a registered nurse in Little Falls Hospital’s emergency room.
Today starts Emergency Room Nurses Week, so The Times spoke with Rebecca Akers at Little Falls Hospital on Tuesday. Akers, who has her bachelor’s degree in nursing from SUNY Plattsburgh, recently took over as the nursing manager in the hospital’s ER unit, coming from Albany Medical Center where she worked as an assistant manager in the ER unit.
“It’s a nice small community,” she said of working in Little Falls. “It’s the kind of group of people here in the hospital. It feels like a good fit.”
Why does she like being an ER nurse?
It’s the dynamics that take place every single day. It’s the unknown possibility of what’s going to come through that door next ... I kind of like living on the edge.
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Saratoga Hospital is Hiring: CNA
Monday, May 24, 2010
Saratoga Hospital is your local choice for healthcare. We combine the latest technology with the compassionate, supportive care that is the hallmark of an exceptional community hospital.
Located three hours from NYC, Montreal, and Boston, and a half-hour from Albany, Saratoga Springs is an historic, close-knit family-centered community with lovely neighborhoods, fine restaurants, specialty shops and entertainment including Thoroughbred horse racing and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Its proximity to the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains of Vermont is ideal for skiers and outdoor enthusiasts.
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