ANNOUNCEMENTS
January 19, 2012 - Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP)
The 2012 application cycle for the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) is currently open. Program modifications that have been put in place to adapt to changes in the nursing profession and to ensure support for communities with the greatest need.
NELRP offers Registered Nurses (RNs), advanced practice registered nurses, such as Nurse Practitioners (NPs), and nurse faculty an opportunity to repay 60 percent of their outstanding qualifying educational loans in exchange for a two-year service commitment at a Critical Shortage Facility (CSF) or an accredited school of nursing.
For 2012, the program is reserving up to half of the award funding for NPs; the remaining funding will continue to support RNs and nurse faculty. As in previous years, NELPR is expected to be competitive. If there are more qualified applicants than available funding, the following preferences will be in place beginning this year:
· Nurses at CSFs:
Preference will be given to nurses based on the greatest financial need, the type of facility, and the mental health or primary care Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designation.
· Nurse Faculty at Schools:
Preference will be given to faculty with the greatest financial need and to faculty working at schools of nursing with at least 50 percent enrollment of students from a disadvantaged background.
The deadline to apply to NELRP is February 15, 2012 at 5:00 pm EST.
To learn more about NELRP eligibility and requirements, visit: http://www.hrsa.gov/loanscholarships/repayment/nursing/guidance.pdf
October 4, 2011 - Ohio Selected as Nursing Action Coalition
Ohio’s Action Coalition, a group co-led by the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) and the Ohio League for Nursing (OLN), has been selected as an Action Coalition by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, coordinated through the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA), an initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), to ensure all Americans have access to high-quality care, with nurses contributing to the full extent of their capabilities.
Ohio’s Action Coalition will work with the campaign to implement the recommendations of the 2010 landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Those recommendations include:
1. Remove scope of practice barriers so APNs can practice to the full extent of their training.
2. Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts.
3. Implement nurse residency programs.
4. Increase the proportion of nurses with BSN degrees to 80 percent by 2020.
5. Double the number of nurses with a doctorate degree by 2020.
6. Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.
7. Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health.
8. Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional health care workforce data.
IOM’s full report is available online at http://thefutureofnursing.org/recommendations.
“We are thrilled to add the Ohio Action Coalition to the Action Coalition network,” said Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, senior adviser for nursing at RWJF and director of Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. “The Campaign for Action must work at every level to build and sustain the changes necessary to improve health care for all Americans, and we know the contributions of the Ohio Action Coalition will be invaluable as we move forward.”
“Ohio’s hospital community has a strong history of working with our nursing partners to advance the practice of nursing in the interest of improving patient care, and we look forward to continuing that work with the Action Coalition,” said Sean McGlone, OHA associate general counsel and director, health policy.
“The Ohio League for Nursing is pleased to be the co-leader with OHA as we work to combine the efforts of the Ohio Network for Nursing Workforce and the Nursing 2015 project to advance nursing’s ability to provide high quality care to Ohioans,” said Jane Mahowald, OLN executive director.
Action Coalitions were announced Sept. 26 in 20 other states across the country in addition to the 15 current Action Coalitions. A Campaign for Action news release with a list of all 36 states with Action Coalitions is available online.
About Campaign for Action
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action envisions a health care system where all Americans have access to high-quality care, with nurses contributing to the full extent of their capabilities. The campaign is coordinated through the Center to Champion Nursing in America, an initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and includes 36 state Action Coalitions and a wide range of health care providers, consumer advocates, policy-makers and the business, academic and philanthropic communities. For more information about the Campaign for Action go to www.thefutureofnursing.org.
About OHA
The Ohio Hospital Association was established in 1915 and currently represents 166 hospitals and 16 health systems throughout Ohio. OHA is a membership-driven organization that provides proactive leadership to create an environment in which Ohio hospitals are successful in serving their communities. Visit OHA’s website at www.ohanet.org. Follow OHA on Twitter @OhioHospitals.
About OLN
The Ohio League for Nursing advances excellence in nursing education that prepares a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the nation’s health. Visit OLN’s website at www.ohioleaguefornursing.org.
August 10, 2011 - OHA Seeks Leadership Role to Change the Future of Nursing
The Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) and the Ohio League for Nursing (OLN), in conjunction with the Ohio Network for Nursing Workforce (ONNW), today applied to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to co-lead an action coalition to change the future of nursing.
In October 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), in partnership with RWJF, issued The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, with eight recommendations to ensure that nursing has a prominent role in leading transformation and advancing health in the changing health care system. If selected as Ohio’s designated action coalition, the group will be charged with engaging stakeholders and working to develop strategies to implement the IOM’s recommendations. A decision from RWJF is expected in September.
IOM’s report makes the following recommendations:
1. Remove scope of practice barriers so APNs can practice to the full extent of their training.
2. Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts.
3. Implement nurse residency programs.
4. Increase the proportion of nurses with BSN degrees to 80 percent by 2020.
5. Double the number of nurses with a doctorate degree by 2020.
6. Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.
7. Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health.
8. Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional health care workforce data.
IOM’s full report is available online at http://thefutureofnursing.org/recommendations.
About OHA
The Ohio Hospital Association was established in 1915 and currently represents 166 hospitals and 16 health systems throughout Ohio. OHA is a membership-driven organization that provides proactive leadership to create an environment in which Ohio hospitals are successful in serving their communities. Visit OHA’s website at www.ohanet.org. Follow OHA on Twitter @OhioHospitals.
About OLN
The Ohio League for Nursing advances excellence in nursing education that prepares a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the nation’s health. Visit OLN’s website at www.ohioleaguefornursing.org.
About ONNW
The Ohio Network for Nursing Workforce is a statewide communication network established to identify issues related to nursing workforce, share nursing supply and demand data by providing links to state and regional resources, examine ways to gather nursing supply and demand data, disseminate best practices for dealing with nursing workforce issues, facilitate discussion of policies regarding the nursing workforce and provide for the participation in the online National Forum for State Nursing Workforce Centers. Visit ONNW’s website at http://ohiocenterfornursing.org/workforce_network.html.
April 19, 2011 - Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) Nursing Scholarship Program
The purpose of the Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP) is to provide scholarships to nursing students in exchange for a minimum 2-year full-time service commitment (or part-time equivalent), at an eligible health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses. Scholarships are awarded competitively and consist of payment for tuition, fees, other reasonable costs and a monthly support stipend.
Recipients of the NSP award are required to fulfill their NSP service commitments within the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Territory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Territory of American Samoa, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of Micronesia.
[Click Here for Application Details from the HRSA Website]
http://www.hrsa.gov/loanscholarships/scholarships/Nursing/index.html
March 29, 2011 - RN Workforce Survey for 2011
As part of the online renewal process, RNs will be given the opportunity to participate in the 2011 RN Workforce Survey using a link provided at the end of their online renewal. Participation is voluntary, but highly encouraged so that a complete picture of Ohio’s current and future nursing workforce can be assembled.
The survey is being conducted as a partnership between the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and the Ohio Board of Nursing. NCSBN is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide an organization through which boards of nursing act and counsel together on matters of common interest and concern affecting the public health, safety and welfare, including the development of licensing examinations in nursing.
The purpose of this workforce survey is to gather much needed data about Ohio’s nursing work force. The information provided will be used in developing strategies for the overall improvement of nursing and to enhance the practice of nursing in Ohio.
[Click Here for the 2011 Survey]
http://www.keysurvey.com/survey/354159/9b39/
March 28, 2011 - The Ohio Board of Nursing Begins Mailing 2011 RN, APN and CTP Notices
Registered Nurses and Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) who are eligible to renew their licenses this year will begin receiving notification by mail the week of March 28th. The mailing will include instructions on how to renew licenses and certificates online. There is a slight change in the renewal process for APNs this year. In order to reduce the lag time between when a Certificate of Authority (COA) is renewed online and when the online verification of the COA is available, all APNs will be required to renew their RN, each COA and their Certificate to Prescribe (CTP) if applicable separately within the online renewal system. If you have more than one credential to renew, don’t forget to log back into the system to ensure that your license and multiple certificates are renewed!
February 2011 - Plans for HRSA's New National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
Q&A with Ed Salsberg, NCHWA Director
The Affordable Care Act established the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (National Center) to collect and analyze health workforce data and related issues, create a uniform health professions data set, evaluate relevant programs, and maintain a database of Title VII grants along with longitudinal performance data. Ed Salsberg, formerly the director of the Center for Workforce Studies at the Association of American Medical Colleges, was chosen as director for the new National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. He discusses his vision for the National Center, how it plans to coordinate work with similar organizations, what the National Center is currently working on, and his visions for the Center's future work.
[Click Here for the February 2011 Article]
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action
The Ohio Network for Nursing Workforce (ONNW) held a special meeting on November 30th, 2010 to learn more about recommendations of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Initiative on the Future of Nursing (IFN). The meeting provided an opportunity to discuss the implications of the recommendations with other leaders from Ohio about the future role of nurses in the health care delivery system in America.
[Click Here for the Original Invitation and Information Packet Including the Agenda]
August 2010 - Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC) Newsletter "What's New in Nurse Practice Regulation, Nursing Supply Data Collection, and Research Opportunities"
- Q&A with Kathy Apple, CEO of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is the organization through which boards of nursing act and counsel together on matters of common interest related to their mission of regulating the practice of nursing to protect the public. Currently, there are 60 boards of nursing.
Health Workforce News had the opportunity to interview Kathy Apple, the CEO of NCSBN, about changes being considered to state nursing practice acts, NCSBN’s progress in collecting national nursing supply data, research funded by the NCSBN, and more.
[Click here to view the complete article on the HWIC Website]
July 12, 2010 - Subscribe to the Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC) Newsletter "Health Workforce News"!
The Health Workforce News, features articles and resources on the latest health workforce issues.
[Click here for the June 2010 Web-Version]
[Click here to subscribe to the Email-Version]
April 23, 2010 - The 8th National Conference of Nursing Workforce Leaders presents: "Nursing Shaping Health: Economics Policy and Practice" June 9-10, 2010 in Dearborn, Michgan
The purpose of this conference is to showcase issues, trends and solutions related to nursing and the economy, to healthcare reform and to safe, quality care. Areas of focus include: economic impact of nurses in a community, the impact of healthcare reform on nursing and how nurses can contribute to healthcare reform.
[Click Here to Download the Conference Informational Flyer]
March 17, 2010 - HRSA Press Release "HRSA Study Finds Nursing Workforce is Growing and More Diverse"
The number of licensed registered nurses (RNs) in the United States grew to a new high of 3.1 million between 2004 and 2008 according to a report released today by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). This increase of more than 5 percent also reflects growing diversity in the backgrounds of nurses in the United States.
[Click Here to Download the Entire Press Release]
Feb. 26, 1010 - February Marks the One-Year Anniversary of the Health Workforce Information Center
The HWIC website is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The site functions as a free online library of health workforce resources. Check them out at www.healthworkforceinfo.org/.
UPDATES
- 03/18/2010 - HRSA Press Release Added
- 03/18/2010 - HHS/HRSA Initial Study Finding Added (Click Here)
- 03/23/2010 - March 2010 Edition of Health Workforce News Added (Click Here)
- 04/23/2010 - National Workforce Conference Information (Front Page News)
- 09/28/2010 - HHS/HRSA Sample Survey Findings (Click Here)
- 11/17/2010 - RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing Awareness Meeting (Front Page News)
- 02/23/2011 - HRSA Workforce Article Added
- 04/19/2011 - HRSA Scholarship Information Added (Click Here)
- 09/07/2011 - Ohio Board of Regents List of Degrees and Certificates conferred by Ohio Public Institutions 2001-2010 (Click Here)
- 11/07/2011 - Nursing Refresher Course List updated (Click Here)
- 11/23/2011 - RN and PN Program Lists updated (Click Here)
- 12/22/2011 - RN Program List updated (Click Here)
- 01/19/2012 - NELRP Information added
- 01/23/2012 - RN and PN Program Lists updated (Click Here)
- 03/23/2012 - RN and PN Program Lists updated (Click Here)
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