Last April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new final rule requiring nursing homes that receive federal payments to meet certain minimum staffing requirements. While the CMS ...

Universities and colleges are doing their part to combat a national nursing shortage with the development of accelerated training programs. Hospitals are preparing for an expected nurse shortage next ...

Alabama tackles a critical nursing shortage, with nearly 40,000 departures outpacing new graduates. Educational institutions ...

PORTLAND, Maine – America needs nurses — and some schools are implementing accelerated programs to train them. To shorten the process, these programs cut training time from up to four years down to ...

ALBANY — Four years after its implementation, Phoebe’s innovative Nursing Simulation & Training Education Program (NSTEP) continues to have great success in ensuring new nurses have the skills and ...

Although Maine’s nursing shortage hasn’t been solved, it’s been slowed by a new push to expand enrollment in nurse training programs across colleges and universities, says Terry Colby, professor of ...

Intensive care units throughout New Mexico are operating beyond capacity. Hundred-day hospital stays are almost commonplace now but were unheard of before 2020. Nurses, aging along with our U.S.

Northern Maine Community College has received nearly $2 million in federal funding to expand and modernize workforce training programs ...

A new program will soon be available for high school students interested in becoming Licensed Practical Nurses. The free, three-year program is a pilot LPN apprenticeship initiative developed by New ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced today one of the largest charitable investments ever made in a pediatric hospital nursing program—a landmark $25 million ...

Two southeast Louisiana institutions have partnered on a new program to educate and train new nurses on an accelerated schedule to help meet a critical need for their skills in St. Tammany Parish and ...