News spotlight: Kansas City nurses hope Innovation Center provides help
Nurse Leader Weekly, August 18, 2008
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Nurses across the country face similar battles while working in facilities that are short-staffed. Could those in Kansas City, MO, see some relief soon?
Last week, a group of partners and donors announced the creation of the Bi-State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center—a project to improve work environments for nurses in the city being challenged by the nursing shortage. The center, which will be located at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing, will welcome nurses' ideas and strategies to solve current problems, such as heavy patient loads. It will also provide funding and the proper training needed to implement the ideas in facilities if they are approved.
Other plans for the center include surveying local hospitals and clinics to identify work environments that need improvement and holding an annual regional conference on nursing workforce innovation.
About $750,000 in grants and in-kind services have been given to supply the center for its first two years.
Sources: The Kansas City Star and Kansas City Business Journal
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