Nurse Recruitment and Nurse Retention

School Nurses Need Help!

I’m thrilled to be the opening Keynote speaker for the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) on June 29th.
NASN
is the leader in advocacy for student health and professional
development of school nurses. Every child deserves a school nurse. Yet the caseload assignments for school nurses vary greatly throughout
the United States. Historically, the federal government and the
National [...]

Recession or Not..We Are Short of Nurses

Despite the recession, most hospital executives believe there are still too few physicians and nurses in the United States, and the shortages will grow worse if access to healthcare becomes universal.

In a survey of 285 hospital chief executive officers conducted by AMN Healthcare, the nation’s largest health care staffing company, 95 percent of hospital CEOs [...]

Scholarships for Minorities

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) New Careers in Nursing provides scholarships to under-represented minorities to attend nursing schools. To date, the program has awarded 700-plus scholarships!

All of us know someone who would love to be a nurse. Invite them. Ask them to join. Tell them about this and other scholarships.

As an expert in nurse [...]

Help End the Nursing Shortage

When I speak at nurse recruitment and retention events, I’ve often stated that we are expected to be ½ million nurses short within the next ten years. But the news is worse than I thought. According to the 2004 Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Sample Survey on the registered nurse population, the nursing shortage [...]

A Million Nurses Short!

Unemployment in the U.S. is near 10%, one the highest rates in years. Nevertheless, we’ve got a severe shortage of workers in one of most well-known and necessary careers in the world. The field is nursing. And, the need for nurses – whether Registered Nurses (RNs) with an associates degree or those with bachelors and [...]