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North Charleston nursing grad struggles to find work in changing healthcare industry - According to the Post and Courier, April 8 2013, Report after report suggests that jobs in the health care industry are booming. However, nurses with two-year degrees are being passed over for those with four-year degrees. Marilyn Schaffner, the chief nursing officer at the Medical University of South Carolina’s Medical Center, said close to 60 percent of nurses at the hospital there have bachelor’s degrees. The Future of Nursing Initiative by the Institute of Medicine recommends that 80 percent of all registered nurses should have bachelor’s degrees by 2020.TO READ MORE CLICK HERE


Grants bring needed doctors to rural South Carolina - According to the Post and Courier, March 30th 2013, Just one doctor serves as many as 10,000 people in some rural parts of South Carolina. Most rural communities in South Carolina can't attract doctors if they try. Wade Lamb knew from the moment he began studying medicine that he would return to his rural home here in the heart of Pee Dee farming country to open his medical practice. Lamb received a lot of help to make sure that happened. Lake City Community Hospital offered to pay off his medical tuition and books if he returned to practice.TO READ MORE CLICK HERE


Nurses for poor mothers linked to healthy births in SC - According to The State, April 3 2013, When Brittany Rogers of Greenville found out she was pregnant, she was terrified. Now, because of a program called Nurse Family Partnership that provides low-income women in their first pregnancies with home visits from registered nurses, Rogers’ confidence in motherhood has grown. Available in limited areas of the state since 2008, the partnership’s goal is to reduce premature and low-weight births and costly stays in neo-natal intensive care units, specifically among first-time mothers who qualify for Medicaid – the joint federal and state health insurance program for the poor and disabled.TO READ MORE CLICK HERE