Rue News

  • Healthcare Cited as In-Demand Field of Tomorrow

    Tuesday, October 06, 2009

    Healthcare, Education and Clean Energy Cited as In-Demand Jobs of Tomorrow, an article published by CNBC.com, brought to the forefront President Obama’s challenge to all Americans to pursue additional education. It also gave insights on which careers are going to expand the fastest over the next few decades. (See full article below.)

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  • Rue is connecting with nurses and educators across the country.

    Tuesday, September 15, 2009

    Rue Education, a premiere education services company, has enhanced its online presence by utilizing social networking on Facebook and Twitter. Because of thie endeavor, Rue is connecting with nurses and educators across the country.

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  • Competing in the Southeast, Rue’s E-Learning Design Wins Award

    Monday, September 14, 2009

    Rue Education E-Learning Services Supervisor, Melissa Kievit, was honored for the design techniques used in the Rue Online Facilitator Certification. Her design of the Rue Education module, The Rue Facilitator and Online Best Practices, won the Southeast ANGEL User Group, Best Module award.

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  • AAMN Member is Awarded a Rue Scholarship

    Wednesday, July 01, 2009

    The AAMN has selected one of its members as the 2008 scholarship recipient for all study materials toward an Associate in Nursing Degree. Bill Gilmore from Mobile, Alabama was awarded the Rue Education scholarship.

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  • New Education Partnership to Address Nursing Shortage

    Friday, June 26, 2009

    St. Louis, MO – Between restricting schedules and prohibitive costs, working nurses face many roadblocks to continuing their education. A new partnership between the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE) Missouri Career Center, the National Education Alliance, Bethesda Health Group (Bethesda), and Rue Education will give area nurses the help they need to advance within their profession.

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  • New Education Partnership to Address Nursing Shortage

    Friday, June 05, 2009

    Between restricting schedules and prohibitive costs, working nurses face many roadblocks to continuing their education. A new partnership between Tampa Bay WorkForce Alliance (TBWA), the National Education Alliance, University Community Hospital (UCH) and Rue Education will give area nurses the help they need to advance within their profession.

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  • The Emergence of Online Learning in PN Education

    Sunday, November 30, 2008

    For the fifth year in a row the online learning sector outpaced growth rates of the traditional classroom. Online learning continues to garner increasing levels of positive support from administrators, employers, and students who value the option of online education at increasingly greater levels. PN Education has largely remained on the sidelines of this revolution. However, with the nursing crisis growing, students, governments, and institutions are demanding more access and convenience to educational options. With the emergence of the Millennial Generation making up the majority of the students, the time has come for PN programs to embrace the potential of online learning. With its diverse mix of didactic, clinical, and lab requirements, PN education is ideally suited for the newest evolution of online delivery—Blended Learning 2.0. This paper will analyze in detail the overall state of affairs of online learning, especially as it pertains to educating the next generation of practical nurses, and finally provide an overview of the key components of a quality online program in PN Education.

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  • Rue Education is Proud to be Recognized as Meeting Excelsior College’s Best Practices for Test Preparation Providers

    Tuesday, June 24, 2008

    Rue Education has twenty years of experience helping nurses and other health professionals prepare for, and obtain, ASN and BSN degrees from Excelsior College. In 2007, Excelsior announced a Best Practices Designation program for test preparation companies. Excelsior wanted to establish guidelines to assure that nurses would be able to identify educational service companies that were committed to the highest levels of quality and that were accurately promoting the Excelsior program.

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  • Rue Education Partners with Pearson Learning Solutions to Customize Textbooks for Distance Learning Nursing Students

    Sunday, March 30, 2008

    Rue Education (www.rueeducation.com), the country’s largest provider of distance learning systems for nurses, has formed a unique relationship with Pearson Learning Solutions, the educational consultancy for the world’s largest educational publisher, to develop customized textbooks and digital content for Rue’s online learning system.

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  • Rue Education Announces First Loan Forgiveness Guarantee

    Tuesday, March 11, 2008

    Rue Education (www.rueeducation.com), the country’s largest provider of distance learning systems for nurses, announces the industry’s first Interactive Learning Guarantee, which grants loan forgiveness to adult learners who do not pass an exam taken within 30 days of completing Rue’s online tutor-led session associated with that particular exam.

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  • Rue Education Collaborates with NAPNES

    Friday, February 29, 2008

    Rue Education (www.rueeducation.com), the country’s largest provider of independent study systems for nurses, has formed a unique relationship with the National Association for Practical Nurse Education and Service, Inc. (NAPNES) to co-develop educational courses for medication technicians, nurse aides and other unlicensed assistive personnel who want to become licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/LVNs).

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  • Rue Education Launches National Education Alliance: Alliance Partnerships will Facilitate Nursing Degree Studies

    Saturday, December 22, 2007

    Rue Education (www.rueeducation.com), the country’s largest provider of independent study systems for nurses, announces the formation of the National Education Alliance (www.nationaleducationalliance.com), a partnership among colleges, universities, hospitals, businesses and healthcare associations to provide grants, scholarships and endowments that make nursing degree programs more accessible for allied health professionals, like licensed practical nurses, paramedics and respiratory therapists.

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  • Distance Education Offers Solution to Nursing Shortage: Rue Education Provides Real-World Options

    Monday, November 19, 2007

    Although Cathleen Schneider wanted to become a registered nurse for many of the 27 years she spent as an LPN, family obligations and the commitment to her job didn’t allow her to enroll in a traditional college nursing program.

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  • New Flexible Learning Approach Offers a Solution to Nursing Shortage by David Hopkins, Ph.D.

    Tuesday, November 13, 2007

    The growing nursing shortage is posing a real threat to the U.S. healthcare system, one that can be alleviated in part through new approaches to nursing education.

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  • Rue Education Earns Preferred Provider Designation from AAMN

    Tuesday, April 24, 2007

    Rue Education, which specializes in developing materials for adult learners pursuing fully accredited nursing degrees through independent study, has been named a preferred provider of independent study materials by The American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN), a partnership that will help build awareness and provide educational support for men pursuing a career in nursing.

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