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New loans aim to keep nurses in R.I.
Monday, August 01, 2011
Nursing students in Rhode Island have a new option for financing their education — a loan program with zero interest for up to four years, provided they work in Rhode Island.
With Governor Chafee in attendance, the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority on Tuesday announced its new Nursing Reward Program, saying the program was intended to offset a projected nursing shortage by encouraging graduates of the state’s nursing schools to take jobs in Rhode Island.
The loan program will be available for nursing students starting with the 2011-2012 academic year. To participate, the borrower must become a licensed registered nurse and work at least 20 hours a week, with responsibility for direct patient care at a licensed health-care facility in Rhode Island. Nurses who meet those terms will not have to pay interest on loans obtained through this program for up to 48 months.
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URI offers doctorate of nursing program
Monday, February 28, 2011
The University of Rhode Island has launched a doctoral program in nursing.
The program was created in response to a need for doctoral-level nurses as identified by the national Institute of Medicine. The institute said in October that highly trained professionals are needed to teach, to conduct research and to take an active role in policy making.
Currently only about 1 percent of nurses in the nation have doctorates.
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R.I. News Digest: Fees to increase for nursing students, business majors at RIC
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Fees for full-time nursing students and undergraduate business majors at Rhode Island College will be hiked by $50 a semester, another sign of the financial strain at Rhode Island’s public colleges.
Fees for full-time nursing students and undergraduate business majors at Rhode Island College will be hiked by $50 a semester, another sign of the financial strain at Rhode Island’s public colleges.
The Board of Governors for Higher Education Monday night met at the Community College of Rhode Island and approved the hikes for roughly 500 nursing students and 1,000 business majors. It’s estimated that the increases will generate $48,000 a year for the nursing program and $96,000 a year for the School of Management.Read Full Article
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Nursing honor society holds induction, awards ceremony
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
On Dec. 6, 113 undergraduate nursing students, 10 RN to BSN students, 6 graduate nursing students and 5 nurse leaders were inducted into the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International through Delta Upsilon Chapter-at-Large. The event was held at the Quonset O Club in North Kingstown.
The Delta Upsilon chapter is comprised of Rhode Island College School of Nursing, University of Rhode Island College of Nursing and Salve Regina University Department of Nursing.
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State OKs new nursing program
Thursday, November 12, 2009
WARWICK — With nursing schools running at near capacity in Rhode Island and the state mirroring a nationwide shortage of nurses, the New England Institute of Technology is on the verge of opening a new nurse-training program.
On Monday, the school won the requisite approval from the Department of Health’s Board of Nursing for an associate’s degree program in nursing. The college and its three faculty members will welcome the first 50 nursing students in March.
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Nursing shortage yields R.I., N.H., Mass. collaboration
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
PROVIDENCE — At Rhode Island Hospital, the shortage of highly qualified nurses who teach is already so bad that it’s had two nurse educator positions open for two years, even at the largest hospital in a state with one of the nation’s worst unemployment rates.
“It has an impact on care. It really does. It has an impact on how quickly we are able to advance and institute new programs,” said Barbara Riley, the hospital’s chief nursing officer. “We absolutely struggle to find nurses with master’s degrees who are educated in teaching.”
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Rhode Island Hospital awarded $11 million, 5-year renewal
Monday, August 31, 2009
PROVIDENCE, RI – Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million renewal of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to fund its Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Center for Cancer Research Development (CCRD). Rhode Island Hospital’s COBRE CCRD offers cancer researchers access to the latest technologies in molecular pathology and the emerging field of proteomics. The 5-year grant from the NIH’s National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), awarded after an extremely competitive peer review process, guarantees that the laboratory-based cancer research program will continue through the year 2013.
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Tufts foundation wins $250k nursing grant
Friday, August 21, 2009
Tufts Health Plan Foundation announced Thursday it was chosen as one of 19 foundations nationwide to receive $250,000 in funding from a national initiative intended to help address nursing shortages.
With the two-year grant, Tufts Health Plan Foundation will develop a regional approach to nursing education. The tri-state collaboration, which will include peer organizations in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, will work specifically with the Massachusetts Hospital Association to implement the program.
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$1 million grant to RI Hospital M.D. for primary care melanoma screening training program
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Providence, RI – Rhode Island Hospital dermatologist Martin Weinstock, MD, PhD, has received a $1 million, 2-year Team Science Award grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance to serve as principal investigator to develop a training program for primary care physicians to improve melanoma screening in primary care. The goal is to develop a web-based training module that will lead to earlier detection of melanoma and ultimately reduce the number of melanoma deaths by half.
According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 68,720 new melanomas will be diagnosed in the United States this year. While melanoma accounts for only about five percent of all skin cancer cases, it has by far a much higher mortality rate than the more common types.
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Kent nurse mounts drive to de-authorize hospital union
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Less than a week after nurses won their first union negotiated contract with Kent Hospital, an emergency department nurse and union representative is mounting an effort to de-authorize the union, thereby giving the hospital’s 670 nurses the right to decide whether they want to pay dues or not.
Jeanette Geary said Tuesday that she has been in contact with the National Right to Work Foundation and aims to circulate a petition, the first step to a de-authorization vote as soon as she educates nurses on their rights and the action they can take.
Prompting Geary’s actions are what she considers a lack of information distributed by the union, the manner in which the contract vote was conducted and union misinformation.
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