Cast Your Vote for Most Powerful People in Healthcare

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voting is underway in modern healthcare magazine's 3rd year of ranking the "100 most powerful people in healthcare." the number of nurses on the ballot has grown. included among those nominated is pa nurses member linda aiken, professor at the University of Pennsylvania school of nursing. to see those nurses included on the ballot, check out the category listings for both nurses and academia. to vote, you must select up to 10 individuals of the 300 on the ballot. the names are listed in alphabetical order on the ballot. the deadline for voting is july 23, 2004. for more information, go to:

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/page.cms?pageid=308&potid=100most

nurse candidates listed:

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/page.cms?pageid=846

bartels, jean

president, american association of colleges of nursing; washington;

professor and chair of the school of nursing, georgia southern

university, statesboro, ga.

bednash, polly

executive director

american association of colleges of nursing

washington

blakeney, barbara

president

american nurses association

washington

converso, ann vice

president

united american nurses

washington

demoro, rose ann

executive director

california nurses association

oakland

foley, mary

past president

american nurses association

washington

holzemer, william

professor, associate dean of international affairs, university of

california school of nursing

san francisco

johnson, cheryl

president

united american nurses

st. louis

mancino, diane

executive director

national student nurses' association

new york

mikkelsen, greg

president, ceo

u.s. nursing corp.

denver

shaver, joan

dean, college of nursing, university of illinois at chicago;

president, american academy of nursing, washington

stierle, linda

ceo

american nurses association

washington

thompson, pamela

ceo

american organization of nurse executives

washington

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They may be working in healthcare but not all of the names on that list up there are actually Nurses.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Don't know how Greg Mikkelsen made the top 300 in healthcare.

His travel nurse company, often staffing strikes, does not sit well with me as "BEST" of healthcare.

See:

http://www.nurseweek.com/news/features/00-06/strike.html

http://www.healthleaders.com/magazine/feature1.php?contentid=30844

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Hey, thank you!

We have to vote for ten.

In addition to Linda Aiken and nursing organisation leaders i voted for Lucian Leape, author of "To Err is Human" for the Institute of Medicine.

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Don't know how Greg Mikkelsen made the top 300 in healthcare.

His travel nurse company, often staffing strikes, does not sit well with me as "BEST" of healthcare.

See:

http://www.nurseweek.com/news/features/00-06/strike.html

http://www.healthleaders.com/magazine/feature1.php?contentid=30844

I dont understand why you dont like him, Someone has to assist in staffing strike plagued hospitals. Thats just good business on his part

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