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    Health reform will bring need for more nurses in Oklahoma

    Health reform will bring need for more nurses in Oklahoma, December 2, 2010:"More Oklahomans could soon hear: "The nurse will see you now." The prescription for hospitals and doctors' offices, which will get even busier as health care reform brings millions more people to their doorsteps, may be highly trained nurses with greater authority. Those nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and be full partners with doctors as health care reform collides with an aging population and a reduction in primary care doctors, according to the Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."
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    Looks like Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Practice Nurses will have a very rosy future, if they can get into programs before 70% of the nursing faculty retire with the rest of the Baby Boomers.


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    I guess that sews up my decision to get my PsychNP while I finish my doctorate.
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    no matter what, pay and benefits will always be terrible in Okla. However, golf, fishing, and deer hunting is prime there.

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    See this post, eh? http://www.ultimatenurse.com/forum/f...57/#post134497 Seems like APN's vary state to state.

    Also. with the economy being what it is, I often how far this 'reform' will fly. New grads without jobs, older nurses staying in past retirement age...... Enough said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cougarnurse View Post
    See this post, eh? http://www.ultimatenurse.com/forum/f...57/#post134497 Seems like APN's vary state to state.

    Also. with the economy being what it is, I often how far this 'reform' will fly. New grads without jobs, older nurses staying in past retirement age...... Enough said.
    The only market flourishing in a socialist economy is...the black market. Depending on the rate of inflation (as dictated by the tonnage of deavluating paper the Treasury prints), trade-economy will see a resurgence, starting in the rural regions. "Level of practice" won't mean as much as practical, cheap, no-strings advice and care. But I make a study of social trands and decline... ( ;

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