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July 2007 | Nurse.com
Television Commercials Shed Light on Nursing Shortage
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April 2007 | New York Daily News
Schools join together to help hospitals fill vacancies.
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April 2007 | Clarion-Ledger
A social worker is on her way to becoming a nurse, thanks to the University of Mississippi Medical Center expanding its nursing program by 40 students.
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August 2006 | USA Today
Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the city faces a shortage of doctors, nurses, and hospital beds for the most vulnerable: the poor, the uninsured and those who are grappling with mental illness and substance abuse.
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July 2006 | Daily Record
Mr. Goldberg may have been a difficult nursing home patient in the early '70s, but he also was tenderly remembered by a particular nurse. Registered Nurse Martha Smith tells the story of their meeting in "Treasures of a Nurse's Heart", a newly released memoir of highlights from her 50-year nursing career.
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July 2006 | Star-Ledger
An advocacy group of Arab-American nurses is expanding beyond Michigan and trying to open chapters in other states, including New Jersey...
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July 2006 | Nursing Economics
What a friend nursing has in the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation. RWJ's good work for the nursing profession has helped us understand our profession, quality of care issues, the importance of adequate nurse staffing, and now the need to retain the older nurse as long as we can.
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April 2006 | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia may soon become the 50th and last state to allow nurse practitioners to write prescriptions for patients...
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March 2006 | Memphis Business Journal
Tennesseans who hope to become nurses may have a slightly easier time, thanks to a Nashville fundraiser...
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February 2006 | New Jersey Business Journal
Today, New Jersey's hospitals and medical centers find themselves competing among themselves and with other fields to attract enough high-quality nurses. The use of sign-on bonuses, pension enhancements, tuition reimbursements and higher salaries are not unusual – and not unlike practices of "blue-chip" corporations in strong economic cycles...
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