NAS Insights for Health Care Recruiting

Posted by Kate Wardwell, Director of Business Development

NAS Insights is pleased to present the following breaking news of interest to those professionals engaged in the field of health care recruitment:

New AHCA Study Underscores Need to Stabilize, Bolster U.S. Nursing Homes' Direct Care Workforce

The American Health Care Association (AHCA), which released an extensive new analysis of America's nursing home workforce, said that a significant national effort must be mounted to strengthen and stabilize a direct care workforce already battered by chronic Medicaid underfunding, and further threatened by state budget cuts due to the current economic downturn.

http://www.ahcancal.org/News/news_releases/Pages/19Nov2008.aspx


NY Facing Nursing Shortage

New York is projected to face a shortage of registered nurses by the year 2020, according to a new report by Center for Health Workforce Studies at the state University at Albany.

http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2008/11/17/daily53.html


Project RN Aims to Prepare D.C. Region's Next Wave of Nurse Educators
Recognizing the critical role qualified nursing faculty play in graduating new nurses, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield created Project RN, offering nurses willing to commit to teaching for three years the funds to complete a graduate degree.

http://include.nurse.com/article/20081117/DC02/111170064