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A state university in Blue Ridge, North Carolina, has been granted initial accreditation by the nursing non-governmental body to operate for five years.
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) has granted accreditation to Appalachian State University for a five-year operation. The CCNE give no conditions and other concerns for granting the said initial accreditation. This is good news for the nursing community students since Bachelor of Science in Nursing has been longed by them many years ago to be offered by the university.
Jane Nicholson, director of University News, said the CCNE accreditation is a great support for effective implementation of the program and for the benefit of the students.
Dr. Wanda Stutts, ASU nursing department chair said the nursing department is happy to have achieved such accreditation and it also shows the faculty’s commitment to excellence both academically and as a service to community efforts to help improve the health care needs of this part in North Carolina.
The CCNE accreditation, it was learned, is in accordance with a nationally-recognized body which adheres to standards especially in accreditation matters.
Meanwhile, the nursing shortage in the US is now gradually solve and given attention by many states, with the opening of many programs that would invite more students in America to take up nursing as a profession in the future.
The shortage in nursing was initially solved in the last few years by accepting professional nurses to work in the US for higher salary offers. This also resulted with many countries opening nursing schools because of the demand in the US. However, with the new campaigns in most nursing schools in the US territory, it is also expected that more nursing graduates would be employed in the next few years that are really from students living in America. This means the demand in Asia for nursing graduates, as well as in other countries of the world is also expected to slow down with the entry of these future nursing graduates.
Just like the military school, the nursing profession is also one of the best careers today in many parts of the globe and each country basically needs more health care professionals to serve people in the communities.
The nursing shortage experience in the US is now coming to its end with the massive creation of nursing websites. This will help encourage more students in the US to take nursing courses. This new website is design also to help nursing graduates find jobs easily.
My-Nursing-Career.com can easily provide list of nursing schools, nursing jobs as well as career advice from nursing professionals who are also experts in the field. There are also other career resources everyone could enjoy when they visit the website to get enough information. It offers all advertised nursing jobs online from three big resources such as HotJobs, Monster and CareerBuilder. This is what will make this website superior from other existing nursing career websites. Students can freely access the site if they too would want to get information about the nursing profession in many parts of the globe. Jeff Morrow, site marketer, said My-Nursing-Career.com is now felt in the worldwide web also provide access that paying employers posted in their website.
Netsurfers and nursing students and professionals can also find:
- Nursing education news updates
This means students can also regularly visit the site as they would also provide more updates regarding the nursing profession, giving students more knowledge and resources. The website would soon become a one-stop-shop for everyone – the nursing employers, the schools, the students, the advertisers and especially to the nursing professionals. - New information for nursing career offers
New information for new nursing career offers is also expected in this website soon when it becomes a one-stop-shop for everyone. However, the focus of the website is still in the hot jobs because this is the main goal to provide more career opportunities to nursing professionals. - Hottest nursing jobs in the planet
Of course there would be listing of the hottest nursing careers in the planet for registered nurses. Among the hottest jobs in nursing today include travel nurses, legal nurses, forensic nurses and several others. You just have to click a particular state in the US and other parts of the globe and you can easily find list of available jobs. Of course if there is nursing online degree you can also find online opportunities for nursing jobs. All of these opportunities would become available soon according to reports from sources. This is a commitment the site would like to commit in the next few years as the site grows and become the center for all nursing professionals and students.
The technological innovation of the internet system provides a greater venue for the development of the establishment, businesses, educational setting and other transactions. One of the very evident that it brings to the educational setting here in the United States is the system of online learning. In which, this kind of educational learning been considered as one of the leading system of education in the country. Where in thousands of young learners especially to those individuals who foregoes their higher educational learning prefers to obtain their career education through getting online degree program. In that case, the existence of online education system provides beneficial importance to the educational system in the country especially in foregoing a higher educational learning. No wonder that this online education had been recently used as a gage to combat the nursing shortage concern in the country. In which, the government gives much support to the existence of the nursing online program in the country due to the fact that the shortage is going critical already.
One of the online nursing schools that been considered as the main providers of online nursing education and service is Drexel University Online here in the country. The online nursing education that they offered where entirely based or quite similar to the campus based nursing schools school. The only difference then was the way they taught their learners. In which, the online classes takes place via satellite on the internet and the submission of the requirements was also done online. In that case, the interaction between the teachers and to its fellow learners and unto the accomplishment of its requirements was entirely done through online system. The nursing education of Drexel University provides a greater venue for the county to raise more nurses in the country and strengthen its system. Since, it serves as a gage for the learners who have hectic schedules or financial concerns to have a desired to forego a career in nursing to still do it which helps them a lot to ease up the nursing shortage in the country. At the same time, the online Drexel University provides a two way effect of convenience and advance career for both learners and teachers.
Nursing online degree program had already become quite popular here in the United States in order to provide technological advancement of the nursing schools in the country. No wonder that lots of nursing schools in the country whether private nursing schools or nursing community schools have started their technological expansion over online learning schools. Just like the University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Nursing in which they take partnership with the Baylor Health Care System in order to give an online nursing program for the registered nurses that seeks to attain their Bachelor of Science in nursing. This partnership that have take place is just an example that the country is innovating in terms of giving out nursing educational learning in a technological matter.
This online school services that the University of Texas at Arlington’s School of nursing school offers several career opportunity for the learners to take their nursing educational learning in a convenient way, affordable, and very accessible to everyone. Aside of that also, these online educational services that they have offered allows the working individuals or fulltime workers who want to change their career path to nursing career to still be able to attain it through the online learning system. In that case, the University of Texas at Arlington’s online school provides a greater venue for the individuals who want to forego a nursing career through online without much hassle on their part. Just like the case of Remy Tolentino who is a registered nurse and as well a vice president of the nursing tasks force leadership development for the Baylor Health Care System. Currently, she served as the chief nursing officer of the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, and according to her that the University of Arlington’s online nursing school serve as a gage for her to enhance or further her nursing career.
Indeed, through the easy accessibility of the online school of the University of Texas; it serves as a gage for several individuals here in Texas to be able to attain a nursing career education without much hassle and with less expense.
One of the best repayment programs for nurses today is the NELRP, an acronym for Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program. This very competitive program repays at least 60 percent of the registered nurses’ loan balance which qualifies for the program, in exchange for the service within two years which is already considered in a facility in critical shortage. The program participants may be considered to work a third year plus 25 percent additional for the loan balance that also qualifies.
NELRP is authorized by the Public Health Service Act based on Section 846 to assist in performing retention as well as recruitment of professional nurses that are serving underserved communities.
The program for registered nurses is now applied by many professionals as the student loan repayment is up to 60 percent of the loan balance that qualify. This means this is now one of the very effective programs for nursing professionals which have problems on repayment of their students loans while still in college. It is also an answer to the problems which is long been kept by professionals because of no available programs which can help them solve their loan repayment problems.
Registered nurses eligible to apply for the NELRP should meet the following requirements:
- Graduate of a baccalaureate or associate degree in nursing from an accredited state’s school of nursing.
- Have a loan in college which can qualify for the program leading to a diploma in nursing education
- Finished a nursing program in which the loan balance applies
- Should be a US citizen, national who resides in the US
- Should be employed full time in a facility considered on critical shortage
- Should be employed in a facility considered as non-profit
- Have a permanent nursing license in the US as registered nurse especially at the state he wants to practice profession.
- Submitted an application for NELRP and also signed the NELRP contract, forms and other documentation required.
Dr. Pamela Pyle, gynecologist and obstetrician at Virginia Beach, said this project is really a wonderful tribute to their mothers since the scholarship will be helping children to pursue their dreams to become professional nurses in the future. It was learned that in 1970 Pamela’s mother, Alice Pyle met her new found friend Mary Meyer. They were then volunteer nurses who helped in outreach programs of the Virginia Beach Health Clinic.
Meyer died in 1994 of Lung cancer while she was then a nursing supervisor at a general hospital in Sentara. She died at the age of 60. The scholarship fund was established in her honor. Then two years later, Pamela’s mother, also died. Fortunately, with the approval and Meyer family blessing Alice Pyle was included in the foundation. In 1995, the foundation initially awarded scholarship grants to qualified students wanting to pursue nursing education. At the moment there are already 22 recipients who received a total amount scholarship of at least $39,000.
Scholar Kelly Shields who lives in Princess Anne is a manager of the recovery room in Virginia Beach General Hospital and is currently studying at Regent University with a course on organizational leadership and management.
She said she is blessed to have been awarded the foundation’s student financial aid – and she also believes this is a great help for her to be able to continue her studies in nursing. In 1995, Shields graduated from high school at Kempsville High School and since then worked at the hospital in Virginia. She said she really enjoy her current course in management as her nursing perspective has great influence as far as her approach to administration.
On the other hand, scholar Lauren Murphy is currently enrolled at James Madison University. She also received the $2,000 scholarship grant from the foundation.
During the awarding ceremony, her mother Lynn Murphy received the grant in behalf of her daughter who was having an important affair at her school. Her mother was also a former nurse at a hospital in Virginia. In fact, she took care of the late Mary Meyer while she was still treated with cancer.
The government had seen that through this programs and funding will become a gage to strengthen the nursing education system of the country and produce quality nurses that will really dedicate to serve the country‘s healthcare system. Since, attaining or training the nursing instructors is one of the important aspects that the government officials can ever done in order to fight the deterioration of nursing system in the country. Despite that they are only few nurses that will be left but still they can still be able to provide a quality services due to the trainings or learning’s that they have from their quality nursing instructors who become a prime mover in their learning growth.
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.
• 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.
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.