News & Updates: New Jersey (11)
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APNs in New Jersey
June 14, 2013 -- Article tells how lawmakers in New Jersey aim to increase the number of advanced practice nurses (APNs) prescribing medications by eliminating the joint physician protocol.
Source: Advance for Nurses
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Tagged keywords: New Jersey, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Primary Care, Scope of Practice, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Doctors Transform How They Practice Medicine
May 15, 2013 -- Article focuses on how doctors are changing how they work in response to turmoil in the health care system.
Source: Kaiser Health News
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Tagged keywords: California, Compensation, Health Care Access, Health Care Quality, Health Reform, National, New Jersey, Physicians, Trends and Emerging Issues
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From New Hires to New Health Systems, RNs Must Focus on Value of Enculturation
April 22, 2013 -- Article discusses how finding nurses who will mesh with a hospital’s mission, values, philosophies — and even approach to care — is supremely important. Nurse enculturation is important not only for nurse retention but for optimal patient care.
Source: Nurse.com
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Tagged keywords: Health Care Quality, Hospitals, National, New Jersey, New York, Nursing Occupations, Recruitment and Retention, Technology in Education and Training
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Graduates of NJ Nursing Initiative Will Help Replenish Teaching Ranks
May 22, 2013 -- New Jersey’s nursing school faculties will soon be replenished with 10 newly minted professors, thanks the New Jersey Nursing Initiative, a program that is aiming to strengthen nursing education.
Source: NJ Spotlight
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Faculty, New Jersey, Nursing Occupations
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Need for Advanced Nursing Education Rises
May 6, 2013 -- A nationwide push for nurses with advanced degrees is taking place. Yet nurses considering advanced degrees may see the value of higher education, but issues such as family responsibilities and budget constraints make obtaining it a challenge.
Source: Nurse.com
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, Financial Aid, Missouri, National, New Jersey, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Registered Nurses, Washington
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Nurses Fighting State by State for Minimum Staffing Laws
April 23, 2013 -- Legislatures in at least seven states and the District of Columbia are debating bills that would require hospitals to have a minimum number of nurses on staff at all times.
Source: Kaiser Health News
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Tagged keywords: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Health Care Quality, Hospitals, Iowa, Michigan, National, New Jersey, New York, Nursing Occupations, Policy, Texas
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Nurses Uniquely Suited to be Care Coordinators
April 30, 2013 -- As patient-centered medical homes become more commonplace, so too will care coordinators, a role that many believe is perfect for nurses to step into. Good care coordinators have lots of experience.
Source: HealthLeaders Media
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Education and Training, National, New Jersey, Nursing Occupations, Trends and Emerging Issues
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Pilot Program Aims to Coordinate Children's Mental Health, Primary Care
June 14, 2013 -- Article tells how through a proposed pilot program in Bergen County, New Jersey, psychiatrists, primary care doctors and social workers would work together to treat children with mental health issues.
Source: NJ Spotlight
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Tagged keywords: Care Coordination, Family Medicine Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, New Jersey, Physicians, Psychiatrists, Social Workers
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Rutgers Program Encourages Minority Undergrads in Quest to Become Doctors
June 10, 2013 -- Three universities have come together to create the Access-Med program, which is designed to provide a "diversity pipeline" with academic enrichment, support, and advising for minority groups currently underrepresented in medicine.
Source: Rutgers Focus
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Tagged keywords: Allied Health, Diversity, Education and Training, New Jersey, Physicians, Recruitment and Retention, Workforce Pipeline
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St. Joseph’s Healthcare System Nurse Takes Education to the Next Level
April 22, 2013 -- Article profiles the first graduate of Seton Hall University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program. The program addresses the critical skills needed to translate evidence-based care into practice, to improve systems of care, and to measure outcomes.
Source: The Paramus Post
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Tagged keywords: Education and Training, New Jersey, Nursing Occupations
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Unique ‘Nurse Navigator’ Helps Cancer Patients at Morristown Medical Center
May 24, 2013 -- Article tells how cancer patients at more and more hospitals are getting crucial help navigating the course of their life-threatening illness in the form of the nurse navigator medical care model.
Source: New Jersey Hills
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Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, New Jersey, Nursing Occupations
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