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Engineering Online Degree | Are men the answer to the growing Nursing shortage?

Posted by bposton on November 12th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

My last post talked about how there’s a growing shortage of nurses in the US and it could get pretty bad by 2020 with over 800,000 nursing positions not filled.

So hospitals, universities and nursing organizations are working to try and end the nursing shortage with help from industry and the private-sector.

One example is the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future.

This is a $30 Million public-awareness campaign and it’s goal is to enhance the image of the nursing profession, recruit new nurses and faculty and try to retain nurses currently in the profession.

Andrea Higham is the director of the campaign, and here’s what she had to say:

“Building awareness of the shortage of nurses and nurse faculty, as well as the benefits of a career in nursing, has had a big impact. But concerted efforts must continue if we’re to head off what is predicted to be a huge problem well into the next decade.”

Higham also said that men are a major target of this campaign.

She noted this interesting fact: If the number of men entering nursing each year grew to anywhere near the number of women entering the field, the nursing shortage would cease to exist.

So what’s a man to do but be a nurse?

Come on guys - you know you want to

And you’d be helping the country out of jam, right?

OK, so will the growing number of men entering the nursing profession be enough to eliminate the
shortage in time? Don’t forget about all those baby boomers who’ll be in need of increased medical care.

No one can tell right now. All I know is that it’s up to us men to led the way

Ben

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engineering degree online : interesting news story

Posted by bposton on October 29th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

I was reading the news in my online dorm room the other night and saw an interesting story.

Seems that a grand jury in Seneca County (in Ohio I believe) indicted a new police chief on two felony counts of tampering with records and two misdemeanor charges of “falsification involving his qualifications”.

The chief was accused of misrepresenting his credentials when applying for the police chief’s position earlier this year.

At issue is that fact that he obtained a criminal-justice degree from Concordia College and University, an online degree program in the Virgin Islands.

Now he did have 16 years of experience so that should count for something, and I’m not sure if they’re actually saying that the degree is bogus, but if he’s convicted, he could get a potential prison term of one to five years and a $10,000 fine for each felony count and a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for each misdemeanor count.

So I’ll try to keep an eye on this and let you know what happens.

But just another way to give word to the wise - make sure you check out your program!

Ben

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