It had been considered that the student assistance program especially the scholarship program was one of the motivational factors that will encourage more young individuals especially those who experience some difficulties in terms of financial aspect to still forego their higher educational learning or career education. Here in the United States, it had already been a fact that the nursing team in the country is quite declining. With these alarming situations, several programs were been developed in order to cope up the nursing shortage the country that been experiencing. It had been considered that nursing scholarship program was one of the effective student financial assistance program that been made due to the fact that there are several learners who have responded or motivated to forego in taking up a nursing career course program. With the effectiveness of nursing scholarship program in increasing the numbers of nursing students in the different nursing education program schools, it encourages the different educational learning institutes together with private and public sectors to provide nursing scholarship program in order to give support to the declination of the nursing individuals and still preserve the nursing healthcare system. One of the latest scholarship program that been provided for those individuals who wishes to forego a nursing educational career was the scholarship award that been given by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). In which, they have given off about $ 28 million to fifteen deserving junior nursing faculty who are quite deserving with the desired to further their nursing higher education whether through getting a nursing online degree program or campus setting. The organization of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation wants to give more focus on the higher degree of nursing program in order to highly academically and technically the current nursing individuals especially those assistant nurses for the purpose of strengthening the nursing team.
Those individuals who will be qualified for this nursing scholarship program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation must be a junior nursing faculty with five years of experience towards its job. The 15 junior nursing individuals who will be chosen will serve as the leaders in the nursing team of the country and be a core source of handling its nursing team.
Nursing course program in the country is really in demand due to several career opportunities that lies on beyond. Though that was the case, still there are several individuals who forego this career education program. Even some working individuals who want to change their career path will usually venture to nursing career and for that matter; it’s quite a challenge to their part to give balance to their studies, work, and family life. For that matter, there are several social sites that been established in order to provide information or resources for both the working and non working nursing students. These sites will be a great help for the nursing learners to widen their knowledge in order to support their nursing learning. It had been noted that there were around 100 best blogs for the nursing students to refer into depending on their needs. There are about ten categories of blogs sites for the nursing students to refer on or for the nursing professionals. These nursing sites were been categories by the following:
• General
• Student Nurses
• Practicing Nurses
• Specialty fields
• Organizations and Associations
• College Student
• Medical
• Travel Nursing
• Jobs
• Miscellaneous
These ten categories of nursing blog sites provide different aspects, issues and even recent news updates that will give information for the nursing learners to develop their education program. Aside of that also, this 100 blogs that been categories or divided into ten blog classification provides a venue for both nursing learners and nursing professionals to have interaction to each other such as blogs that have forums for both student nurses or for professional nurses. Indeed, these nursing nursing blog also serve as for social interaction, educational learning, and professionalism or in line with working purposes and entertainment purposes. These different nursing blogs offers a world wide access and which sometimes deals information or issues from nurses of the different nations in order to provide picture or glimpse about the different situations that the different nurses or even nursing system and nursing education system that every nations are dealing on. Aside of that also, some of these nursing blogs also provides information about the job opening of the different job employment of nursing field in the different healthcare system around the globe especially in the United States.
Many students and professionals in the medical industry are happy with the many developments in the nursing industry – with the launching of these new programs many medical practitioners could upgrade their knowledge from the latest trend of the profession. In Indianapolis, a new collaborative effort in accelerated nursing program is recently launched most especially in Glendale, California with the cooperation of the San Diego State University, University of Oklahoma as well as Glendale Adventist Medical Center. This is now the second time that Orbis Education launched this kind of program for the betterment of the profession as well as updating the nursing education program in the country. The program allows students in Glendale and Los Angeles area to benefit from the new nursing education program dubbed as Accelerated Second Degree from the College of Nursing in Oklahoma.
Based on research, this is an innovative program which is reportedly blending both technology and tradition to give outstanding performance and benefits to the professionals as far as the medical practice is concerned. The programs offer online education as well as clinical education modules which are on-site programs for best career jobs in the future. Orbis Education is working this project with transparency in order to carefully manage logistics as well as developed with potentials partners in the program, college affiliates that also want to have this accelerated program in nursing. They’ve been also working diligently to maintain good standards in promoting new educational studies that will help propel the new studies in nursing. Orbis officials said there are standards in health and education which must be worked out properly in order to meet the demands of the times as far as innovations and new programs in nursing. Daniel Briggs, Orbis Education CEO said the first batch enrolled under the accelerated BSN program is graduating in December, a living proof of their commitment to excellence in the nursing education programs. He said the company has a vision to operate the same project simultaneously. In Glendale, it was learned, there are students without previous experience in health education who can become a nurse in just a total of 14 months.
In Oklahoma University, for example, the theory part of the newest program is properly taught to students by the campus faculty and the clinical education part is also taught at Glendale Adventist Medical Center thru a select faculty members.
