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Rapid Growth in Nurses with Baccalaureate Degrees

Jun 10, 2015

At the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, we really like data, and we couldn’t let this number slip by without highlighting it for you. For the first time, the number of nurses graduating with a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN), including RN-to-BSN graduates, is more

Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

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 more

Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

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Using the American Community Survey to Describe the Registered Nurse Workforce

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The American Community Survey (ACS) is a national household survey administered by the U.S. Census Bureau, designed to collect social, demographic, and economic information describing the U.S. civilian population. As the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) is more

Issues: Collecting Workforce Data Increasing Diversity in Nursing Transforming Nursing Education Location: National

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Your Action Coalition: Multiply Through Messaging

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Hosted on February 18, 2015: Jumpstart 2015 with a recruitment drive that’s powered by tried and tested messages in this webinar, “Your Action Coalition: Multiply Through Messaging.” Learn how to reach and engage diverse nursing audiences-(1) young nurses, (2) experienced 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: National

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 more

Issues: Transforming Nursing Education Location: Massachusetts

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 more

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

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The Top Five Issues for Nursing in 2015

Dec 02, 2014

In 2013, the Institute of Medicine released a report, U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, that compared the United States with 16 other affluent nations. The United States ranked last or near last on nine key indicators: infant mortality and more

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

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Transforming Nursing Education

Jul 16, 2014

More highly educated nursing workforce needed to provide more complex patient care, experts say. Many registered nurses (RNs) start—and finish—their post-secondary education with an associate degree in nursing (ADN). But health care experts want more nurses to see the ADN as more

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