RN Programs

More nursing students in West Virginia passed their licensure exams last year in 2007. Members of the state Higher Education Policy Commission could not believe on the increasing rates of nursing students when the state ranked worst in the country.

Pamela Alderman, president of the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses said that they have been working very hard as they knew it was tough year for the state. The administration has been examining weakness in their curriculum. In 2007 West Virginia ranked 50th last among the states but that year about 81 percent of students passed their exams.

The shortage of nursing has increased till now. The shortfall predicted in 1998 has become a crisis which has no solution. In 200 the gap between supply and demand for RNs was estimated at 110,800 full-time employees. This shortage was predicted to increase by 2020. The combination of few jobs and few job seekers occurred to overcome the shortage of nurses. It resulted to a 31 percent downfall in nursing enrollment from 1995 to 1999.

Today patients demand a nurse with specialized skills. The absence of necessary knowledge and skills has resulted in poor nurse patient ratios further intensifying the shortage. In 1980, 48,000 RNs were employed as nursing faculty by 1988 there were just 30,000. However since every crisis presents an opportunity for positive change. The nurse faculty shortage creates both an incentive and a moral imperative for the nursing profession.

Cardinal Health Inc.’s charitable arm is backing a new statewide effort aimed at improving safety and cutting health-care costs. The Cardinal Health Foundation is one of several organizations on Thursday that unveiled the Solutions for Patient Safety initiative, which includes 16 Central Ohio hospitals and Ohio’s eight children hospitals.

Each hospital involved in Solutions for Patient Safety, initially funded by $1.5 million from the Cardinal foundation, will implement programs to reduce health care-associated infections and medication errors. They’ll share information and work to replicate best practices and outcomes with providers in Ohio and across the country.

The world’s biggest drug maker is cleaning out its chemical compound closet and firing 800 researchers, or 8 percent of its science staff, as it focuses on developing medicines to treat cancer, brain disorders and pain, said Martin MacKay, the New York-based company’s research chief, at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco today. Some compounds Pfizer wants to sell have been tested on humans, MacKay said.

Pfizer is halting early-stage development of medicines for heart failure, high cholesterol and obesity to focus on more- profitable diseases, the company said in September. The research cuts add to firings of 1,200 scientists last year with the closing of Pfizer’s Ann Arbor, Michigan, laboratory.

The US is facing a severe nursing shortage. Around 8.5 percent of the nursing positions in the US are unfilled. It is also calculated by the number will triple by 2020. Hospital and administrators and nurses’ advocates have declared a staffing crisis. Wages for the registered nurses have been increased. Huge numbers of nurses who have specialized in RN programs are brought into the US from abroad every year. Critics say that it is a short term solution and cannot overcome long term problems.

Registered Nurses make up the majority of workers in the health care industry. They hold a position of seniority over LPN programs. After getting a degree in RN programs a person’s job becomes more challenging and rewarding. A student is taught in the RN programs about the needs of patients suffering from illness or injury. During a time of nursing shortage the opportunities of registered nurses widens. A full-time two years course of RN programs prepares the graduate to work in the nursing environment.

Based on all this data and research the picture is fairly clear. As of March 2008 the survey estimated there were 2.7 million licensed registered nurses in the US. The shortage of registered nurses in the US could reach as high as 500,000 by 2025. There are already nursing shortages in California and New York and other states have reported some difficulties in finding registered nurses. Thus the government has planned to introduce RN programs in most reputed colleges in reasonable fees so that students take interest in it. It has also been instructed some of the hospital to partner with some colleges so that the qualified registered nurses do not fly to different places.

Nursing is always an attractive career for job security but in the Low country. However, the recession is freezing vacancies for recruitment. During the normal economy, nursing were getting jobs according to their nurses. According to Muriel Horton who is the dean of Trident Technical College Nursing Division, nurses will get jobs but not equal to their needs.

The hospital system has 10 open positions for specialized nurses and 30 nurses on a waiting list for other positions. It reduced turnover and nurses choosing to delay retirement are resolving the shortage to some degree.  The factors are converging to create the shortage for lack of qualified instructors for staff training programs.

Margaret Lewis, the president of Hospital Co-operation of America informed the visitors that lot have changed in the nine months besides the weather. More than 200 people are working in the hospital and are expected to finish the job in 2010. There are many subcontractors which includes 23 companies from the Fredericksburg area.

The hospital is the regions third after Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg and soon they will open Stafford Hospital Center on U.S 1 at the county courthouse. HCA is looking for nurses, pathologists, hopitalists and physicians etc. If you want to apply send applications at the end of January. However, lot of progress is still needed.

Ellen Barker responded to the new administration's invitation for help by gathering advice and tips to send to the White house. President Barack Obama is emphasizing to resolve the issues of nurses. He prefers to give an opportunity to help and support the reform. They also feel important to provide opportunity to support the health reforms for prosperity and development too.

More clinics and hospitals will be opened for supporting employment and resolving problems of nurses. They want to save money but not by adjusting the development of nurses in the American Society. Unaffordable health insurance was one of the biggest scruples. According to Delaware it is estimated that 105,000 people do not have health insurance.

Patients in the Royal Preston hospital Lancashire is now appreciating nurses. According to them the doctors and nurses staff from the surgeons to the cleaners is very good. They always keep hospital clean and perfect in time management. There are various visitors in the hospital. One of the UCH visitor: told What he liked is the  manners and patience of all staff involved; clear communication and information supplied; treatment with the patient make clear staff concentrated on all aspects of patient wellbeing; If we check the treatment given to patients then we clearly come to know that they are getting utmost attention from the patients. 

One of the Royal Cornwall hospital patients has admitted that if there is an emergency then they surely prefer their relatives to take treatment from the same .Nano second is time given to all patients during emergency case . They were informed at all times of what was happening and the doctors and staff is friendly and helpful.