Category: Education

The growing nursing shortage is posing a real threat to the U.S. health care system, one that can be alleviated in part through new approaches to nursing education. The number of RNs in the workforce is expected to peak this...

Deb Lewandowski, director of oncology services at Martin Memorial Health Systems, has seen much of her nursing staff change faster than Superman in a phone booth. In the past four years, the turnover rate on the oncology unit at...

When Suzanne Luongo, clinical education manager, joined the Memorial Healthcare System 25 years ago, there wasn’t an “educational” environment as there is today. People were hired with the training and education they...

Health care providers for educational programs are now challenged to provide scientific information that help aid graduates, from medical and other health related disciplines, to meet the needs of their communities. Training on...

As the American healthcare industry begins to undertake the inevitable conversion from paper-based to electronic medical records and systems, hospitals and other healthcare related facilities and organizations face a host of...