Nursing Shortage was Solved thru Johnson & Johnson

The Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future hosted a Promise of Nursing for Maryland gala last September 24. Their goal is to increase the funds to help alleviate the nursing shortage in Maryland and across the United States. The earnings of the event will support regional nursing school grants, faculty fellowships and student scholarships. The event that will celebrate the nursing profession will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel which will start at 6 p.m. The attendees are the area nurses and health care professionals from local hospitals and institutions. Let us expect more than $500,000 proceeds from The Promise of Nursing for Maryland events.

Steven Cohen, special advisor of administration and performance improvement at MedStar Health, said that they are experiencing a deficit in the number of nursing professionals in Maryland and that deficiency is expected to deteriorate exponentially as the population ages and the demand for health care increases.

More registered nurses in our health care system are badly needed. The hard work like the Promise of Nursing gala will help advance nurses and nursing education locally, these are really vital. The arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). HRSA stated that by 2020, Maryland will experience a nursing deficit rate of over 36%, which is more than 18,200 nurses. According to Jeffrey Rivest, President and Chief Executive Officer at the University of Maryland Medical Center, there is a growing awareness of the essential role of nursing professionals which includes patient care, student training and cutting-edge research. The local, regional and national endeavours that generate the awareness of the nursing shortage, as well as the corresponding scarcity of qualified nursing faculty to teach future nurses will continue to help drive nursing school enrolment to produce increased numbers of nurses to ensure a skilled and adequate nursing workforce in the future. The Campaign for Nursing’s Future by Johnson & Johnson had generated an income of more than $16 million since 2002. [via jnj.com]