Kay Bensing, MA, RN, is senior staff nurse consultant at ADVANCE. Recently, I talked to an editor on the ADVANCE staff who was excited about a program that aims to meet the elusive goal the American Nurses Association proposed in its famed 1965 position paper: requiring a BSN as the entry level of RN preparation. A diploma graduate of 1965, ...

In October, Tennessee came down hard on nurses and other healthcare professionals who were in default on their student loans - and in violation of a decade-old statute that requires licensed professionals in the state to repay education loans, or face the consequences. According to a Jan. 18 article in the Chattanooga Times Free Press, 42 ...