What do these two pictures have in common

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What do these two pictures have in common?
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Addressing the Nursing ShortageA Scholarship to
Increase Nursing Professors

• Sunaina Menawat
• Strategic Presentation Skills 90-718
• Fall 2007

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Why We Need A Scholarship for Nursing Ph.D.s

• The Nursing Shortage
• Scholarship Proposal
• Costs and Benefits

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Projected percent of registered nurse (RN)
shortage increases
Source U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services,
July 2002 AACN, Nursing Shortage Fact Sheet March
2007
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Age, technology and finance are constraints
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States with projected shortages of RNs in 2020
are all over the U.S.
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The Bottleneck Effect
Practicing Nurses
40 increase in demand!
6 growth in supply!
Applicants to Nursing Schools
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Cost and implementation of the scholarship are
easy

• Costs start at 20,000
• Implementation requires
• Choosing a geographic region of interest
• Choosing a nursing college
• Developing scholarship requirements and
  parameters
• Instituting the scholarship in the name of
  Humana Inc.

Source Humana Second-Quarter Profit More Than
Doubles (Update7) http//www.bloomberg.com/apps/ne
ws?pid20601203sidaiTYivxMndoYreferinsurance
Accessed 9/17/2007 UNF plans 2 new doctoral
nursing, therapy programs http//www.jacksonville.
com/tu-online/stories/032907/bus_8895932.shtml
Accessed 9/17/2007
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The scholarship could be implemented in targeted
regions
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The Bottleneck Effect Revised!
Practicing Nurses Increase!
Applicants to Nursing Schools
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The scholarship can benefit Humana Inc.
Increased Market Share!
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Summary

• Nursing shortage leads to increases in
  insurance claims
• A scholarship for nurses to pursue a Ph.D.
  would increase nursing professors
• The benefits to Humana Inc. and the country are
  multifold in alleviating the nursing shortage