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New Fund in Canada Aims to Create Jobs for Nursing Graduates

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" /><meta name="CREATED" content="20070227;22412100" /><meta name="CHANGED" content="16010101;0" /> <style type="text/css"> </style>As far as I know, there is no job scarcity for graduating nurses in the United States but I guess the situation is a bit different in Canada.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), the union representing 53,000 registered nurses, hopes that the multi-million-dollar fund announced by <strong>Canadian Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care</strong> will help create permanent jobs for new nursing graduates.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">“This is a good thing for Ontario’s nursing graduates,” says Linda Haslam-Stroud, RN, ONA President. “We need to bring more registered nurses into our health-care system, and while these are not permanent, full-time positions being created, the announcement does allow new graduates six months of experience on the front lines, which will be invaluable experience for them.�</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">For further information: Ontario Nurses’ Association, Sheree Bond, (416) 964-8833, ext. 2430.</p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=9" title="View all posts in Canada" rel="category tag">Canada</a>, <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Good News" rel="category tag">Good News</a> | <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=92#respond" title="Comment on New Fund in Canada Aims to Create Jobs for Nursing Graduates">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-49"><a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=49" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Big Apple Bans Trans Fats">Big Apple Bans Trans Fats</a></h3> <small>Tuesday, December 5th, 2006</small> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Fat-Conformation-Trans.gif/200px-Fat-Conformation-Trans.gif" /><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" /><title /><meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /><meta content="20061205;22293000" name="CREATED" /><meta content="20061205;22444100" name="CHANGED" /> <style type="text/css"> </style>NYC at long last has officially acknowledged what all travel nurses and doctors have known for ages � trans fats are bad for your system and, sampled frequently enough, they’ll kill you too.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>New York’s Board of Health has at long last banned the use of all trans fats in city restaurants</strong>. One wonders what took them so long?</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">This means New York’s fine dining establishments will have to find more healthy (and perhaps also more expensive) substitute for the fat in which most French fries and other quick-lunch delectables were prepared for the millions of New Yorkers on the go.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>David Katz</strong>, director of the Yale Prevention Research Center, is quoted as saying: “”I applaud New<br /> York City and frankly, I think there should be a nationwide ban. It’s basically a slow form of poison.� Enough said.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">But what about all the millions pounds of cookies that our kids digest in any given year? Cookies, cracker and all the pizzas all serve loads of hydrogenated vegetable oil. That’s a lot of trans fat intake too.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">When lawmakers talk, the business listens. <strong /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Wendy’s</strong> restaurants have already switched to zero-trans-fat oil back in August.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">MacDonald’s, KFC and Taco Bell are all reportedly trying out different substitutes to comply with the NYC ban.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Kudos for NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg</strong> who has also banned another killer, smoking, in New York restaurants and bars in the past.</p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=4" title="View all posts in Facts & Figures" rel="category tag">Facts & Figures</a>, <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Good News" rel="category tag">Good News</a> | <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=49#respond" title="Comment on Big Apple Bans Trans Fats">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-30"><a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=30" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to CA Nursing Program Blessed with $1 Million Donation">CA Nursing Program Blessed with $1 Million Donation</a></h3> <small>Wednesday, November 15th, 2006</small> <div class="entry"> <p><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title /><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" /><meta name="CREATED" content="20061113;22000400" /><meta name="CHANGED" content="20061113;22224900" /> <style type="text/css"> </style>The nursing program of <strong>De Anza College of Cupertino, California</strong> received a significant boost with the <strong>$1.08 million donation from The Community Foundation Silicon Valley</strong>.</p> <p>The college’s current capacity which can accommodate only 24 nursing students a year will be expanded to welcome <strong>66 additional nursing students over the next five years</strong>.</p> <p>A �La Voz Online� story reported that �the region’s colleges currently produce 224 nurses each year to fill 615 local nursing jobs that become vacant annually. This <strong>shortfall is expected to be widening to 10,000 by the year 2020</strong>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.lavozdeanza.com/media/storage/paper911/news/2006/11/13/News/Da.Nursing.Program.Receives.1.Million.Dollar.Donation-2442618.shtml?norewrite200611150029&sourcedomain=www.lavozdeanza.com"><strong>Click here for more on this story</strong></a> </p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Good News" rel="category tag">Good News</a> | <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=30#respond" title="Comment on CA Nursing Program Blessed with $1 Million Donation">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-29"><a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=29" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Donna Proffit Vaughn Announces Ferguson-Proffit Nursing Scholarship">Donna Proffit Vaughn Announces Ferguson-Proffit Nursing Scholarship</a></h3> <small>Wednesday, November 15th, 2006</small> <div class="entry"> <p><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title /><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" /><meta name="CREATED" content="20061113;22000400" /><meta name="CHANGED" content="20061113;22224900" /> <style type="text/css"> </style>Donna Proffit Vaughn of Eagle Rock and her family have established, through the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Educational Foundation, the Ferguson-Proffit Nursing Scholarship.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a href="http://www.rockbridgeweekly.com/rw_article.php?ndx=5543"><strong>See the Rockbridge Weekly story for more details</strong></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Good News" rel="category tag">Good News</a> | <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=29#respond" title="Comment on Donna Proffit Vaughn Announces Ferguson-Proffit Nursing Scholarship">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-23"><a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=23" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Alabama Steps on the Gas to Fix RN Shortage">Alabama Steps on the Gas to Fix RN Shortage</a></h3> <small>Thursday, November 9th, 2006</small> <div class="entry"> <p><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" /><title /><meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /><meta content="20061028;18263000" name="CREATED" /><meta content="20061109;215900" name="CHANGED" /> <style type="text/css"> </style><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">As I keep saying at every opportunity, we need more nursing programs and more nursing graduates to meet the worsening RN and PT shortage all across America. Alabama seems to be determined to do something about it.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">The<strong> University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing </strong>has announced the <strong>�RN Mobility program� </strong>to provide bachelor’s and master’s degrees in partnership with <strong>Southeast Alabama Medical Center (SAMC) </strong>and <strong>Wallace Community College</strong>. Good move.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">SAMC’s vice president of patient care service Vicki Darnell is quoted as saying “we are committed to the development, growth and retention of our RN and LPN nursing staff here at the medical center, and the RN Mobility program will serve as a vital resource for doing just that.�</font></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">UA received a<strong> $750,000 grant</strong> from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for 2004-2007 to expand the Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing track.</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" /></font></font></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Good News" rel="category tag">Good News</a> | <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=23#respond" title="Comment on Alabama Steps on the Gas to Fix RN Shortage">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-17"><a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=17" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Philanthropists provide big boost to increase nurses, hospital safety">Philanthropists provide big boost to increase nurses, hospital safety</a></h3> <small>Thursday, November 2nd, 2006</small> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/15909202.htm">MercuryNews.com | 11/02/2006 | Philanthropists provide big boost to increase nurses, hospital safety</a><br /> <strong> Community Foundation Silicon Valley</strong> announced Oct. 25 that it had given a <strong>$1.08 million gift to De Anza College</strong> to expand its nursing program, which educates about one out of every four nurses in the valley. The gift will allow De Anza <strong>to graduate an additional 66 nurses over the next five years</strong>, which will help reduce the anticipated shortfall in nurses throughout the state over the next two decades.</p> <p>California ranks next to last in the nation in nurses per capita, and the<strong> Bay Area is expected to have a shortfall of more than 10,000 nurses by 2020</strong>. </p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Good News" rel="category tag">Good News</a> | <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=17#respond" title="Comment on Philanthropists provide big boost to increase nurses, hospital safety">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-16"><a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=16" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Lifelong Learning Pays Off">Lifelong Learning Pays Off</a></h3> <small>Thursday, November 2nd, 2006</small> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://www.babwnews.com/article.php?id=746">Bay Area BusinessWoman Online</a><br /> <strong> Katy Lui</strong> became a nurse more than 20 years ago because she wanted to help people. 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