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stevo--don't care much for RB but do get some info from there such as this from Rocky.
MSSI is in and industry that's posed for growth.
Easing nursing shortage also means curing instructor crisis
Jul 16, 2005 (The Dallas Morning News - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via COMTEX) -- It's a number that still gives Dr. Beth Mancini pause: 4,200 people applied to nursing programs statewide two years ago but were turned down.
"We need every one of those nurses; they could be hired tomorrow," said Dr. Mancini, associate dean for undergraduate nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington, adding that last year's number was probably 5,000.
The nationwide nursing shortage is reaching crisis proportions, yet prospective students are being turned away largely because of the increasingly lean corps of nursing faculty. It's a problem with few solutions, as more instructors reach retirement age and as the private sector and its high pay draw nurses away from academia.
But hospital operators, in dire need of more nurses and with little control over the number that schools turn out, have begun to dedicate more resources to colleges and universities in an effort to ease both the nurse and faculty shortages.
"We need to address this -- and now," said Jim Willmann, director of governmental affairs for the Texas Nurses Association. "There are qualified applicants waiting to get in and jobs waiting when they get out, but the bottleneck is with the faculty."
In Dallas-Fort Worth alone, hospitals are trying to fill a void of 1,500 nurses. Nationally, the shortages are continuing to mount. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that registered nurses will be the fastest-growing occupation by 2012.
Over the years, hospital companies have tried various methods of attracting nurses -- sign-on bonuses, recruiting from other countries and student scholarships -- but they have proved to be only temporary fixes.
More recently, these companies have supported colleges and universities with dollars and personnel to help find long-term solutions.
Arlington-based Texas Health Resources began supplying faculty, funding and students for El Centro College in Dallas in January 2003. The investment has reached about $1 million a year, which covers faculty salaries, tuition and instruction materials.
THR, which operates 13 hospitals, including Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and Harris Methodist Fort Worth, believes that medical assistants and technicians have the makings of registered nurses.
So the company lets these employees take distance-learning classes through El Centro and clinical practice at THR from faculty hired specifically for these students.
THR is on track to produce 40 nurses each semester -- without taking up additional classroom space at El Centro, says Michael Evans, RN, THR's chief learning officer.
"It became clear that our own employees who aren't nurses had the aptitude and the ability, but they were constrained by financial reasons or transportation," Mr. Evans said. "We traveled the world looking for nurses. The mother lode is within ourselves, within our 17,000 employees."
Student Elizabeth Lawrence, 33, of Hurst, works as a Spanish interpreter for Harris Methodist H-E-B Hospital in Bedford. She plans to graduate from this program next year with a degree from El Centro and change job titles to registered nurse.
"I thought this is another way I might use my Spanish in the medical field," Ms. Lawrence said. "Of course, having your education paid for is wonderful, too."
The program doesn't put more teachers in El Cento's classrooms, but it lets the school produce more nursing graduates.
It's a program that's catching on, said Charlotte Green, associate dean of El Centro's nursing program.
Baylor Healthcare System, Methodist Health System and Medical City Dallas Hospital plan to make similar arrangements with El Centro, Ms. Green said.
"This allows us to take in more students, with the hospitals helping defray some of the costs," she said. "Hopefully, this helps the hospital with employees coming back to work for them, this time as nurses."
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. is going after a different talent pool, using a three-year grant that it hopes will produce nurses and, ultimately, faculty members.
Last year, the company earmarked $2.8 million for accelerated undergraduate and graduate nursing programs for mid-career people who already have bachelor's degrees in related and unrelated fields. The grant is for five schools, including Texas Woman's University in Houston and the University of Texas at El Paso.
"Our No. 1 priority was to look at tapping into a different source for nurses that in the short term relieves the nursing shortage," said Garry Olney, Tenet's vice president for nursing clinical operations.
"But a lot of schools offer a track where students can go from a bachelor's to the master's level, then they are eligible to teach, and this is where we believe we will help with the faculty shortage."
Health educators are also hoping initiatives from the recent legislative session will help. State lawmakers appropriated $6 million to nursing schools for faculty.
By Steve Quinn To see more of The Dallas Morning News, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.dallasnews.com.
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looks like we are gapping up this AM! like to break out over the .05's and hold ground,far too many big things in the works for this one to stay down much longer.
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starting off like yesterday,low volume,seems they want to shake out any impatient holders if there are any left.If this holds true then we can expect another end of day rally.
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it almost looks as if they are actually have trouble filling buy orders.It took me over an hour to get a small tester buy filled yesterday and it took a matter of seconds for me to sell the same amout at bid.I know this doesn;t sound logical to some people since when doing this it does cost money,both ways it was under $20 commission ($9 buy and $9 sell)and a minor loss between the prices for only 15k shares,but by doing this it tells me how the MM's are sitting and if they are having problems filling a small test order they are going to get slammed if we go into real momo and the shorts will be crushed and the MM's will be forced to raise bid fast!
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all things being consistant I would say we could close the day in the high .05's or more,MSSI is drawing a lot more attention from REAL investors and not just DT's
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expect a slight pull back now and then as we continue to climb but imo am tellin ya,MSSI will be trading at or near a buck or more by year end,watch the 10-q coming out in August. If you ever missed the BIG one where you see an OTC go from the pennies to over a buck please don't miss this one,I strongly recommend a BUY AND HOLD on this one as I did with BIPH when it went to $3.60 from .09.Momo is stepping in right now.
From: "Quest Solver" > Date: 2005/07/18 Mon PM 07:10:43 EDT > To: "Bob Murphy" <bmurphy@nurses-prn.com> > Subject: Re: awareness > > Hi Mr. Murphy, > > I do want to thank you for your immediate response to my e-mails, I have to say that any company can acquire the assets of another but when a company sees that a most important asset is certain personnel and wise enough to bring them into the new company that alone builds confidence from my point of view!! I amongst others are extremely glad you are part of the team! > > Thanx again and look forward to the updates! > > Hank > > BTW did you know MSSI was on the REGSHO list for being shorted??? I definitely would not want to be short MSSI right about now!! I hope they all get burned for keeping this puppy down this long! > > http://www.regsholist.com/<http://www.regsholist.com/>
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Hi Hank,
I didn't know we were on that list but it doesn't surprise me. Real performance will get us out of that realm and into trading based on business metrics. I promise you we're working very hard at that. As we have said, it won't happen overnight - but it is what we are all focused on.
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Been in since .038 and happy I waited for the last week or so! dd'd the charts and news and though we'd see a nice run, just didn't know when.
Glad to see em pop up here! Hoping for more, too! Not sure a $ is realistic by EOY, but I do think it's possible for a strong company like this to get there.
Thanks to all who advise and start posts like this, too! You rock!
-------------------- "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'" - Charlie Brown (Charles Shultz) Posts: 719 | From: Leesburg, VA | Registered: Jul 2005
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two steps forward and one step back,keeps us gradually growing and will have very little chance of dropping since the gaps are being filled on the way up!this is thee best way to walk a stock up since when a PPS POPS up fast it drops back just as fast,in this case we build a good base at each level.
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By: indepth11 19 Jul 2005, 11:56 AM EDT Msg. 26902 of 26914 (This msg. is a reply to 24832 by indepth11.) Jump to msg. # T/a =7/7post"W"price bottom,1 year double bottom has been completed by MSSI....Read connecting detailed t/a of why post only 1 day from the bottom of the % retracement at that time $.038 ; the next day was the low day of the Fib. % retracement.....Look at ~ PMED for real $.04 t/a buyers ~ , toolow : ROC & belowBB..... Reversal up next based on overall t/a patterns......MSSI hit major resistance AM ; therefore t/a normal to % retrace to support next.... Real $ timing buyer 7/7 as posted in MSSI......Thanks, InDepth1@hotmail.com
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Lookin good!! might break the .06 mark soon and an EOD rally could really open some doors,can't wait to see this one start trading in the double digits!
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as I said earlier...expect a slight pull back now and then as we continue to climb but imo am tellin ya,MSSI will be trading at or near a buck or more by year end,watch the 10-q coming out in August.Two steps forward and one step back,keeps us gradually growing and will have very little chance of dropping since the gaps are being filled on the way up!this is thee best way to walk a stock up since when a PPS POPS up fast it drops back just as fast,in this case we build a good base at each level.
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Tempted to sell, but afraid it may not go low enough again....what's driving this today??
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Buck..I think bid support is about to get some serious strength over the next few weeks and this is sure actting like an announcement is coming,have to keep an eye out thats for sure...unless of course reality finally set in and many investors now realize that MSSI is the read deal especially for long term.
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don't sell the charts indicate this will go to mid 7's or low 8's before it stops... I was going to get in yesterday. regrest selling last week. Made money playing with it last week, wish i had bought more ...
Thought of it. I was playing another that made me get my Mustang shooping tonight.... whoa!!
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I say MSSI will hit .078 by Thursday from there is your guess. .078 for sure, look at the pattern on the 2 month chart.
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artwork it is...2 steps up and 1 step back and consolidates and moving up again!!Been doing that since this morning at the .04's....a thing of beauty build a solid base like this.