Practicing nurses and nursing students, medical assistants, pharmacists, and other health professionals who provide immunizations.

The association is open to practicing nurses as well as to students who have one degree and are working on another.

While, as you note, health care is "an unusually good job creator," most of the growing pharmaceutical companies have not addressed the need to increase the number of practicing nurses.

It has over 2,600 members including doctors practicing geriatric medicine, old age psychiatrists, general practitioners, nurses, therapists and scientists.

This partnership allows "educational opportunities for residents, fellows, practicing physicians, physician's assistants, nurses and students in other health professions."

In addition to campus ministry serving over 1,300 students, NCF offers continuing education courses and the professional publication, Journal of Christian Nursing, to practicing nurses.

The audience was a multiethnic mix of undergraduates in their 20's, practicing nurses and social workers, anthropologists, massage therapists and physicians.

Professors of nursing earn less than practicing nurses, damping demand for teaching positions.

Many nursing schools offering a bachelor's degree have "fast-track" programs to enable practicing nurses with an associate's degree to earn a bachelor's degree in approximately two years.

In February, Congress approved $20 million for nurse education programs that include scholarships and continuing-education grants for practicing nurses.