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The Nursing Workforce Digest - A Quarterly Annotation of Selected Literature

The Digest is an online, searchable database of citations and annotations of information about the nursing shortage, but not only from health resources. The digest collects its publication also in economics, politics, general public media and other variety sources of information.

As you well know, the nursing shortage is a " hot topic " in the American's agenda , but it is also multidisciplinary and complex topic. Our objective has been to locate, annotate, and disseminate information from a wide spectrum of sources in order to provide an efficient means for decision-makers and others to keep current in this area. Annotations of published information (print and web-based) are added quarterly. News and updates are added every two weeks. All annotations are archived.

Visit the site by going to http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ahechome/workforce.html and clicking on "The Nursing Shortage." Search the database by category of information, quarter in which it was posted on the site, or key words in the narrative portion of the annotation.

Loan Repayment

Loan repayment programs are available for students in a variety of health professions. Click here for information on loan repayment programs available. Loan repayment for nursing education information is available at www.uchsc.edu/ahec/cando.For a map of counties eligible for loan repayment of nursing education please click here; for facilities locales map click here.

Deadline Extended for NHSC Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Applications

The NHSC is in the process of announcing that the deadline for sites and clinicians to submit applications to be considered for a NHSC LRP contract award in Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 has been extended to April 18, 2003 (postmark date). Click here for the NHSC Update.

Also...NHSC Demonstration Pilot Program

The Health Care Safety Net Amendments reauthorizing the NHSC also authorized a demonstration pilot project to allow for participation of pharmacists and chiropractors in the NHSC/LRP.

Click here for Colorado counties with NHSC Providers

The NHSC is planning to implement this demonstration pilot in FY 03. In order to do this we must quickly identify sites that wish to participate. The legislation requires that a health professional licensed to prescribe drugs must provide NHSC obligated service at a site concurrently as the chiropractor/ pharmacist who would participate in the pilot. However, nothing in this section should be construed to 1) require such health professionals to supervise the chiropractor or pharmacist or 2) to supercede State licensure laws.

Please forward to Ssalter@hrsa.gov, contact information for any sites that currently have NHSC clinicians licensed to prescribe drugs, and who have a desire to recruit or retain a pharmacist or chiropractor using the NHSC LRP. Additional information on these pilots will be sent as it becomes available.

For further local information contact Kitty Stevens with the Primary Care office (303-692-2582) or Mr. Monte Roulier, Region VIII NHSC Representative, at 970-663-6200

 

UCD RN to BSN Program

See the new Website for the UCD RN to BSN program.

2001-2005 Nursing Articulation Model

The Colorado Nursing Articulation Model is the first voluntary statewide model of its kind in the nation. Through it, all public, private and proprietary nursing programs in the state of Colorado are enabling nurses to advance their education more easily.

To view the full model or download the paper, please visit our Nursing section.

2000 Nursing Data

The latest nursing data has been gathered together under the Nursing Shortage area. The data collections include:

Data from 2000 (clicking each link will download the document in rich text format or MS Word, please contact Joe Huggins (joe.huggins@uchsc.edu) if there are any problems:

If you have any questions or concerns with this interface please contact Joe Huggins (joe.huggins@uchsc.edu) at 303.724.1131.