Location   Massachusetts

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  1. Examples of Innovations to Build Healthy Communities

    Oct 15, 2016

    At the 3rd Annual Health Care Workforce Summit in September, representatives of a range of organizations across Massachusetts shared their innovative, expansive, and collaborative approaches to improve the health of their communities. Common themes were the importance of partnerships beyond healthcare, community engagement, addressing the social more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Massachusetts

  2. Building Healthy Communities Is Focus of Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit

    Oct 14, 2016

    “Building healthy communities as a team sport” was the overarching message of the 3rd Annual Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit. Nurses from all practice settings are partnering with “teammates” in mental and behavior health, social services, and business to improve health and healthcare across the Commonwealth. more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Massachusetts

  3. Advance Your Nursing Education: Open House

    Oct 07, 2016

    Calling all nurses — students and working — to the RN Educational Advancement Open House on October 27 in Holyoke, MA. Hosted by the Western MA Nursing Collaborative, the event is for student nurses nearing graduation and practicing RNs interested in advancing their education. Thursday, October 27 4:00 – 7:00pm (stop by any time) Supervised more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

  4. Preparing the Nursing Workforce to Transform Healthcare

    Oct 25, 2015

    National & State Perspectives, Initiatives are Focus of MA Workforce Summit More than 150 nurses and leaders from across the healthcare spectrum attended the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Healthcare Workforce Summit and shared updates on national and statewide progress in developing a more highly educated and diverse nursing workforce, including data more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Collecting Workforce Data Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration Improving Access to Care Increasing Diversity in Nursing Promoting Nursing Leadership Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

  5. Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies for LPNs

    Sep 24, 2015

    Five years after the publication of the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies© – Registered Nurse (NOFNCC-RN) and their implementation into academic and practice settings across the state, Massachusetts nurse leaders have developed a similar set of competencies specific more

    Issues: Improving Access to Care Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

  6. Easier Transfers Will Help Mass. Nurses Advance Educations

    May 15, 2015

    Beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year, nurses and nursing students seeking to advance their educations at Massachusetts public colleges and universities will benefit from a more streamlined and less expensive process for transferring credits. The recently finalized Nursing Education Transfer Policy (NETP) creates a seamless, cost-effective, more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

  7. Report: Nursing Faculty Workforce Challenges in Massachusetts

    Dec 15, 2014

    Massachusetts higher education and health care leaders have been working on initiatives to advance and expand the nursing workforce, with the goal of raising the percentage of Registered Nurses with a BSN or higher from 55% to 66% by 2020. Achieving this goal is contingent upon many factors, such as classroom and laboratory facilities, clinical more

    Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

  8. Mass. Health Care Employers Surveyed on Activities to Promote Advanced Education, Diversity in Nursing Workforce

    Dec 10, 2014

    According to a survey of Massachusetts health care employers, 90 percent of acute care hospitals have a formal goal to increase the proportion of nurses with bachelor’s degrees (BSN) in their workforce, but fewer than half require new hires or current nursing staff to achieve that level. The 2013 survey of Massachusetts health care employers — more

    Issues: Increasing Diversity in Nursing Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

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