{"id":1647,"date":"2005-06-03T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-04T00:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2005-06-03T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2005-06-04T00:21:56","slug":"this-is-what-i-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2005\/06\/this-is-what-i-1\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=366619&#038;category=ALBANY&#038;BCCode=LOCAL&#038;newsdate=6\/3\/2005\">This is What I Would Like To Do<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>ALBANY &#8212; Becoming a registered nurse was so important to Kathleen Everson that the single mother began taking evening courses three years ago. It was a big commitment: She was already working at night &#8212; and caring for her toddler son during the day. Sleep was hit or miss.<br \/>\n&#8220;When he napped, I napped,&#8221; Everson said.<br \/>\nBut Saturday, her hard work and bleary years paid off when she became one of a dozen Albany Medical Center Hospital employees to graduate with a two-year RN degree from Hudson Valley Community College. They were the first to do so through an innovative program called &#8220;Growing Our Own.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn exchange for a pledge to work at Albany Med for four years after graduation, the students got free tuition and books &#8212; and the hospital paid for 40 hours of work a week, even though they worked 32, with time during their work shifts for classes and study.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s one of several steps that regional hospitals are taking to address a growing nursing shortage: A recent report by the University at Albany&#8217;s Center for Health Workforce Studies estimates there will be 17,000 fewer nurses than needed in New York by 2010&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;Anyone who works at Albany Medical Center Hospital can apply to join the program. Most of the students are nurses&#8217; aides or lab technicians, with some medical education under their belts. But not all: At least one student who just started has been working in housekeeping<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=366619&#038;category=ALBANY&#038;BCCode=LOCAL&#038;newsdate=6\/3\/2005\"><i>[more&#8230;]<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nI went to Albany Medical Center today and applied for a job taking care of infants in the daycare. I pray that I get it&#8230;or that the Lord&#8217;s will be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY &#8212; Becoming a registered nurse was so important to Kathleen Everson that the single mother began taking evening courses three years ago. It was a big commitment: She was already working at night &#8212; and caring for her toddler son during the day. Sleep was hit or miss. &#8220;When he napped, I napped,&#8221; Everson&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2005\/06\/this-is-what-i-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=366619&#038;category=ALBANY&#038;BCCode=LOCAL&#038;newsdate=6\/3\/2005\">This is What I Would Like To Do<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pansyiana","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}