Nursing

Consortium hopes to stem nursing shortage in Northeast Florida

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, January 26, 2007

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Chief nursing officers and other nursing executives are joining forces to create the First Coast Nurse Leaders Consortium in northeastern Florida in hopes of curbing the growing nursing shortage in the region.

The group, which meets monthly at different member campuses, is focusing on increasing training opportunities and instructors, retaining practice nurses, and recruiting both new nurses into the workforce and past nurses back to the profession. Additionally, the members will try to find ways to influence legislation on the topic.

There is a need for more than 30,000 nurses in the state, according to the University of Florida College of Nursing. That number is expected to more than double by 2020.

Source: Jacksonville Business Journal and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation



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