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2009 Workforce Report

Doing more with more? | Hospitals face renewed calls for staffing mandates while dealing with recession-related workforce cuts

By Gregg Blesch | May 25, 2009 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
An alliance of nurses unions rallied in Washington this month for new workplace regulations in hospitals—an agenda the unions and other nurse advocacy groups have had mixed results in pushing piecemeal state by state.
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2008 Workforce Report

More kids with chronic disease | N.J. project putting nurse practitioners in schools

By Jessica Zigmond | June 02, 2008 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Obesity, asthma, food allergies, behavioral disorders, vision deficiencies and prescription-medication abuse are just some of the chronic health problems that children face today, making the need for school nurses in America stronger than ever.
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Beyond the hospital | More nurses are working outside hospitals, and the need is growing

By Jessica Zigmond | June 02, 2008 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
If hospital administrators think they face a nursing shortage now, they have more than another thing coming.
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2007 Workforce Report

Workforce Report 2007: The cure is in the melting pot | Demand for skilled workers, demographic changes fuel push for diversity in the healthcare workplace

By Melanie Evans | June 04, 2007 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Reports in recent years have highlighted the yawning gap between patients’ and caregivers’ demographics. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine and the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce separately released studies that urged sweeping changes to boost minorities’ access to medical and health education and called for greater emphasis, clearer standards and heightened oversight of diversity and cultural competency goals.
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Web Exclusive: CMS weighs in

By Melanie Evans | June 04, 2007 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Experts consider increasing diversity among doctors, nurses and other professionals as essential to reducing costly, debilitating health disparities among U.S. minorities. Now, the CMS may give hospitals added incentive to bolster their efforts.
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Web Exclusive: Diversity council formed

By Melanie Evans | June 04, 2007 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Improving healthcare quality for minorities won’t happen without quality diversity efforts among hospitals, according to the newly created American Leadership Council on Diversity in Healthcare. The 20-member council, an initiative of the American Hospital Association affiliate the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, Chicago, recently launched an effort to create a certificate program for diversity professionals.
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