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| Obama Chooses Nurse to Lead HRSA |
 By Debra Wood, RN, contributor
President Barack Obama has tapped a registered nurse, Mary Wakefield, to head the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency that helps deliver health care to the uninsured and underserved in America. Wakefield will oversee a staff of 1,400 employees and a multi-billion dollar budget, and will be in charge of allocating $2.5 billion from the stimulus package for medical training and health care infrastructure.
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| The Recession's Effect on Jobs for New Nurses |
By Jennifer Larson, contributor
 Despite the uphill march of the national unemployment rate, there are still nursing jobs out there. For new grads, however, it may be a little harder, in certain pockets of the country, to land the ideal job right out of nursing school.
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| Single-parent Nursing Students Reap Rewards of Innovative Program |
By Glenna Murdock, RN, contributor
 Judith Mathews, RN, knows firsthand the difficulties of managing work and school as a single parent. Mathews' personal experience gave her a clear vision of what was needed to help single moms and dads achieve success as nursing students. Funds to institute her ambitious idea for a cost-free residential program, however, were a long time coming.
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| Study Finds Electronic Health Records Improve Mortality Rates |
By Suzi Birz, principal, HiQ Analytics, LLC
 President Obama has called for "EHRs for Americans by 2014," and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes incentives for providers demonstrating "meaningful use" of EHRs. Researchers in Texas recently published the results of a study to examine the impact on clinical and financial outcomes of health care information technologies.
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| What are the Fastest Growing Nurse Specialties? |
 By Melissa Wirkus, associate editor
Nursing jobs in the intensive care unit, emergency room and pediatrics will always be staples of the profession, but changes to the evolving health care system will also determine which nursing specialties will grow at an accelerated pace.
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