What will the Presidents Healthcare Reform plan do for the Nursing industry? Well, one effect will be a planned increase in the number of Registered Nurses in the United States. According to the White House:
“The Act will increase the number of nurses in the Unites States. It takes a comprehensive approach that helps to retain nurses and to address financial barriers that nurses and nurse faculty face today.The Act awards competitive grants to nursing schools to strengthen nurse education and training programs and to improve nurse retention programs throughout the country.It increases the student loan amounts for nursing students and addresses critical nurse faculty shortages by making nursing faculty eligible for loan repayment and scholarship programs.”
Supply of nurses is getting short each year and with the Healthcare reform at hand I’m still in doubt of its outcome to the expand of nursing community in the country. With more and more patients coming and going at hospitals each year and more and more nurses retiring, with little number of men nurses, and the shortage of doctors also which gives rise to another role of some nurses, I just don’t know what is the real impact of this healthcare bill. I’m still hoping for the best though.
By: Hospital scrubs on June 2, 2010
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