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Nurses Coming Out of Retirement Eases Chronic Shortage For Now
April 22, 2009 -- Older nurses are either delaying their retirements or coming out of retirement in order to compensate for their spouses having lost their jobs. One result: the easing, for now, of a nursing shortage that was spawned nationwide in the 1990s.
Source: Medill News

An End to Dead-end Jobs
April 16, 2009 -- Outlines the work of the Allied Health Initiative, a Beth Israel Deaconess project funded by the Boston Foundation that seeks to identify potential allied health workers among employees already in their workforce.
Source: The Boston Globe

State Nurses Groups Join to Create National Nurses Group
April 15, 2009 -- Several state nurses associations have joined to establish the National Federation of Nurses, Modern Healthcare reports.The NFN includes 70,000 R.N.s from state nurse groups in Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon and Washington.
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Commonwealth Medical College: A New Model for a New Millennium
April 13, 2009 -- Northeastern Pennsylvania, like many non-urban areas in the United States, struggles with physician shortages which ultimately affect health care quality and access, as well as the local economy.
Source: Medical Education Futures Study

Recession Now Hits Jobs in Health Care
April 12, 2009 -- The pace of job growth in health services has slowed this year, as hospitals, pharmaceutical firms and health insurers experience financial challenges due to the recession.
Source: The Wall Street Journal

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Funding Opportunities

ADA Scholarship Programs
Funds scholarships for dental students, minority dental students and allied dental students including dental hygiene, dental assisting and dental laboratory technology.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: June 2, 2009
Sponsor: American Dental Association
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Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award
Award (monetary)
Provides nurses, healthcare workers, their colleagues, and the public a national opportunity to recognize exceptional service, sacrifice and innovation resulting in encouraging and inspirational accounts that we share with the nation.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: May 31, 2009
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Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program
Loan repayment
Provides loan repayment programs for health professions educational loans (undergraduate and graduate) in return for full-time clinical service in Indian health programs.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Indian Health Service
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Lydia's Professional Uniform/AACN Excellence in Academics Nursing Scholarship
Provides scholarships to nursing students in their junior year of an accredited Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: August 1, 2009
Sponsor: American Association of Colleges of Nursing
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National Health Service Corps Multi-Year Recruitment and Retention Assistance
Technical assistance
Provides qualifying practice sites help in recruiting and retaining community-responsive, culturally competent primary care clinicians.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: HRSA Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service
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Resources

Charting Nursing's Future: Nursing's Prescription for a Reformed Health System: Use Exemplary Nursing Initiatives to Expand Access, Improve Quality, Reduce Costs, and Promote Prevention
Profiles programs that have been designed, led, or implemented by nurses. Includes discussion on PACE, expanding access to care, and nursing workforce data in various nursing occupations.
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Date: 4/2009
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Hospital and Physician Capacity Update: A Brief Report from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
Examines changes in hospital and physician capacity by region. Contains maps of the US reflecting capacity changes.
Organization: Dartmouth Medical School
Author: Goodman DC, Fisher ES, Bronner KK
Date: 3/2009
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Linking Workforce Policy to Health Care Reform
Includes testimony presented before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance for the hearing on Workforce Issues in Health Care Reform: Assessing the Present and Preparing for the Future.
Author: Goodman DC
Date: 3/2009
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The Return of the RNs
Discusses the nursing shortage, the recession, and the return of some RNs to either part-time or temporary employment.
Author: Thrall T
Location: Hospitals & Health Networks
Date: 4/2009
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Specialty and Geographic Distribution of the Physician Workforce: What Influences Medical Student & Resident Choices?
Identifies factors that medical students and residents consider when choosing medical specialties and location of practice, including family medicine, and those in rural and underserved populations.
Organization: Robert Graham Center
Date: 3/2009
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Events

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