The school, which now has about 6, 500 students on two campuses and in two nearby prisons, doubled its nursing program when its market research revealed a nursing shortage.

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Christopher Leonard, a reporter for the Associated Press, writes that even with high employment, employers are having a hard time finding qualified people to fill open jobs in fields like nursing, engineering and energy research.

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IPEC's principal researcher is Prof Brian Williams, Director of the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Research Unit.

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Dr Forbat, who is reader and co-director of the Cancer Care Research Centre at university's School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, said they were working from scratch.

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The NIH is now expanding its study, conducting research at a telecommunications company and a chain of nursing homes.

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Ruth Northway, professor of learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, said the impetus for the research came from the people with learning disabilities.

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Innovative BioDefense says a study is under way testing Zylast's effect on elementary-school absenteeism, and additional research is planned on illnesses on cruise ships and in nursing homes.

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The results of her research are soon to be published in the British Journal of Nursing.

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