The investment aims to fill a growing shortage of care providers and improve treatment in underserved communities throughout the United States
he University of Pennsylvania has received a $125 million gift to create a first-of-its-kind, tuition-free nurse practitioner program in Philadelphia that will recruit students to fill a growing shortage of primary care providers in the United States. The program will emphasize training a...
Build Back Better excludes career and technical institutions from Pell Grants, harming 900,000 students.
I always knew I was interested in nursing. To please my parents, I pursued a degree in business administration at Penn State but never finished. Instead, I worked in customer service and recruiting. The pandemic, for me, was a wake-up call. I watched Philadelphians opening their doors and windows to cheer for health-care workers...
With nursing, there are plenty of options when it comes to climbing the ladder. If you are at the start of your nursing career, then you have most likely considered advancing even further, whether that’s to become a nurse anesthetist or a family nurse practitioner. Getting there can be a struggle, however, as you will need to further your education.
Attaining a nursing master’s or doctorate takes a lot of hard work, and it is...
Thanks in part to a $120,000 grant, the Nile Sisters Development Initiative Thursday expanded LearnMore , a vocational nurse assistant training program to help underserved communities prepare for in- demand health care careers.
According to the local displaced-persons-focused nonprofit, the grant was provided by The San Diego Foundation COVID-19 Community Response Fund , and will allow the program to offer...
If you plan on becoming a Registered Nurse (RN), then where you go to school and the degree you earn will play a huge role in your future career. The United States has a pressing need for qualified nurses. The BLS projects the number of nursing jobs to grow by 12% over the next decade, much faster than the average for other careers. A degree in nursing leads to high-growth positions with excellent pay.
According to...
Scholarships, tuition waivers and grants are a few ways to offset the cost of graduate school.
ABOUT 40% OF ALL graduate students in the U.S. received grants – a form of financial aid that doesn't need to be repaid – for college in the 2015-2016 academic year, according to the most recent data available from the National Center for Education Statistics released in 2019.
That's much lower compared with undergraduate...
The variety of specializations in nursing means that there is a place in nursing for nearly every kind of interest and skills, from research to law to technology. Nursing informatics, in particular, has become one of the most in-demand and fastest-growing nursing specializations . Nursing informatics is where nursing and Big Data meet; NI specialists are responsible for wrangling, organizing, and analyzing the...