In the news: Nursing gains popularity as many search for new jobs, careers
Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, July 6, 2009
As many lose jobs and search for more security in their next line of work, nursing has become a popular alternative, and many nurses who have been out of the field for years are looking to come back, especially in the Cincinnati, OH, area, reports the Business Courier.
Mary Duffey, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati Health Council's Health Care Workforce Center, which offers a nursing refresher course, has seen a sharp rise in calls and applicants.
Nationally, experts attribute a similar rise to an effort to expand nursing schools, attract young people to the field, and a surge in foreign-born nurses, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that between 2007 and 2008, the nursing workforce saw an 18% surge—the largest in three decades, according to a study being released in Health Affairs journal. Though the nursing shortage has lessened, experts agree that the fix is temporary, and nursing will continue to suffer longtime shortages.
Related Products
-
Nurse Preceptor Training System, Second Edition
With the help of this updated binder, handbook, and CD-ROM set, it's never been easier to train effective preceptors...
-
Quick-E Pro: Time Management: A Guide For Nurses
Designed to help you make the most of your time this resource includes proven strategies and techniques as well as charts...
-
Nurse Retention and Workforce Planning:
This 90-minute presentation will discuss why nurse retention is a workforce planning imperative and provide strategies for...
-
Nurse Residency Program Builder
This guide saves you time and money by providing the tools you need to establish a well-structured nursing residency program...
-
Nurse Coaching and Mentoring: Set Expectations and Improve Staff Performance
Discover innovative, field-tested methods to coach your nursing staff during this 90-minute audio conference. Expert author...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- HIPAA Q&A: Answering service messages
- News and briefs: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association against residency bill change
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- CMS issues IPPS proposed rule for FY 2013
- The debate continues: Nurses who reported physician to the Texas Medical Board file federal appeal
- E-mailed
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- Don't let these sentinel events trigger falsely
- Arkansas woman convicted for HIPAA violation
- Q&A: Coding for protein malnutrition
- Q&A tackles coding questions about injections and infusions
- Joint Commission Center announces handoff communication solutions
- Inside best practice: Reduce patient falls with a stoplight
- Identify modifiable risk factors to prevent patient falls
- Hospitalist-surgeon comanagement has no effect on outcomes
- Searched