Extendicare Employees to Receive Education Scholarships

The National Education Alliance is pleased to announce that it will award scholarships totaling nearly $27,000 to Extendicare Licensed Practical Nurse employees. These scholarships are in addition to the $90,000 in grants that Extendicare employees have been awarded from the National Education Alliance.

National League for Nursing Signs on as Founding Member-Sponsor of IOM Global Forum on Innovation in Health ...

The NLN has joined with other professional organizations partnering to advance health education worldwide. The IOM’s Global Forum brings together leaders at the highest levels of public service, academia, industry, and the non-profit world to facilitate discussion about and foster ideas for evolution in the education of health professionals to meet the demands of the dynamic, interdisciplinary ...

NLN Nursing Education Research Grant Proposals Due February 23 for Awards Up to $25,000 Additional $2,500 Grant for ...

Beginning researchers, accomplished scholars, and mentor-protégé research pairs are encouraged to apply for the NLN Nursing Education Research Grants and for the NLN/MNRS grant. Studies must relate to one or more of the NLN's Priorities for Research in Nursing Education. Priority will be given to studies evaluating the success of strategies for ensuring a diverse student population, provide a ...

The Komen Controversy: Planned Parenthood Claims a New Kind of Victory in the Culture War

When the history of Facebook-enabled activism is written, the backlash against the Susan G. Komen foundation’s decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood clinics will fall somewhere behind the Arab Spring and ahead of the effort to get Betty White to host Saturday Night Live. The Betty White campaign took months; the Komen foundation reversed [...]

NURSE FINDS THAT SWITCHING TO CAREER IN EDUCATION PAYS OFF

Lisa Deaderick • U-T