Healthcare organizations join forces to push for nurse workforce programs
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, October 27, 2005
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Eleven national healthcare organizations have banded together to urge the Senate's healthcare appropriations leaders to fight attempts to reduce Title VIII nursing workforce funding.
There are growing concerns that some senators will look to cut funding to help offset the costs of the
"Given adequate resources, Title VIII programs could attract more students into nursing programs, increase the supply of nursing faculty, recruit diverse student populations, provide assistance to students to enable them to complete nursing studies, and ensure the collection of analysis of current nursing workforce data," the coalition stated in a letter to Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), chairman of the Senate's Appropriations Committee's Labor, HHS, and Education subcommittee, and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), the subcommittee's ranking member.
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