ATLANTA — The Southern Regional Education Board honored Johnson & Johnson for its Campaign for Nursing’s Future to publicize the nationwide nursing shortage and to encourage diversity in nursing. The award was presented during the annual meeting of the SREB Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing, which continues here through October 3.
Johnson & Johnson, one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of health care products, is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Through its 230 operating companies around the world, Johnson & Johnson employs some 116,200 people in 57 countries.
Lorie E. Kraynack, the marketing manager for the company’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future, accepted the award.
The acute national and regional shortage of nurses is exacerbated by the shortage of faculty members who can train nursing candidates, and the conference is focusing on this crucial topic and on increasing racial/ethnic and gender diversity in nursing and among nursing faculty members.
The SREB Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing includes faculty members and administrators from nursing schools in 16 states. Speakers at this year’s conference from various SREB member states are addressing topics such as state legislation to alleviate the shortage of nurses and nursing faculty, diversity in higher education and nursing, ways to improve racial/ethnic diversity among nurses and nursing faculty, and the shortage of men in nursing.
Eula Aiken, the director of the SREB Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing, is available for interviews about the nursing faculty shortage and the lack of minorities in the field. The news media is invited to attend the conference. Please contact SREB Communications.
SREB, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, advises state education leaders on ways to improve education. SREB was created in 1948 by Southern governors and legislatures to help leaders in education and government work cooperatively to advance education and improve the social and economic life of the region. SREB has 16 member states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Each is represented by its governor and four gubernatorial appointees.
