Since the project began, 180 volunteers from nine countries have joined the effort, including medical residents, nursing students and retired physicians.
And most of all, I want to thank all of the nurses and all of the nursing students who are here with us today. (Applause.) Yes, absolutely.
At the University of Detroit Mercy School of Nursing, nursing students are working with engineering students to design devices that will help veterans with disabilities return to the activities they love.
Many of you know that I'm a community college professor, and I've had the great privilege over the years of teaching countless nursing students -- and I have to tell you, they're always my A students.
So when Jill and I launched Joining Forces and we first started thinking about how to improve health care for our veterans and military families, it was very clear that we needed to call on all of you -- America's nurses and nursing students.
And to all of the nurses and nursing students here today and across this country, I want to be clear that we need your leadership, not just in this area -- in our hospitals and clinics and doctor's offices -- we need your leadership period.
To solve that one, as well as to permit his students to take the national nursing exam after graduation and get a license to practice in the U.S., Ross' school must partner with community colleges that offer associate degrees in nursing, pushing students stateside for two of their five semesters.
There is a need to ensure that students of nursing - our future staff nurses who will be looking after me when I am older - are able to care confidently and competently for older people - geriatrics.
In 2011, 41% of students passed the nursing tests, down from 58% in 2010.
Kaplan executives wave off the notion that the space is already too crowded -- or that the pool of students who need real estate certification or nursing training online might not be that vast.
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"Youth are more involved than ever in their community, " says Snow, whose students volunteer in women's shelters, nursing homes and other sites.
The school, which now has about 6, 500 students on two campuses and in two nearby prisons, doubled its nursing program when its market research revealed a nursing shortage.
That hot 23-year-old grad students attract more suitors on Match.com than wheel-chair bound nursing home inhabitants?
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