NursingHands.com and KaplanCollege.com Partner to Provide Nurses with Convenient Access to Online Educational Programs and Resources

New York (September 21, 2000) – www.NursingHands.com, a leading website for nurses, today announced that it has partnered with KaplanCollege.com, a leading provider of online educational programs for working professionals. The partnership includes integration of KaplanCollege.com's high-quality online educational content including nursing programs and feature articles to the NursingHands site, enabling NursingHands' members access to educational resources that can increase their knowledge and advance their careers.

"Our relationship with NursingHands demonstrates our commitment to help nursing professionals take control of their demanding careers through online continuing education," said Bill Rosenthal, President of KaplanCollege.com. "We are pleased to partner with NursingHands and to introduce their growing community of nurses to our quality online courses which are a flexible and convenient learning option for busy nursing professionals."

The KaplanCollege.com School of Nursing offers a diverse selection of continuing education courses and programs for nursing professionals including Legal Nurse Consultant Programs, a Physical Assessment for Nurses Certificate and numerous continuing education courses. Early next year, subject to receiving the required regulatory approvals, the School of Nursing also plans to offer an online Bachelor of Science in Nursing Completion Program that will provide nurses with associates degrees in nursing and nursing diplomas with the courses they need to obtain a BSN degree.

"We look forward to offering expanded online educational resources to our nurse members and to developing this relationship with KaplanCollege.com through co-branded marketing efforts," said Isobel Coleman, CEO and founder of NursingHands. "Kaplan is a first-rate brand in education and this area of our site will fully complement our existing Marketplace and Career Center to better serve the professional needs of the 2.8 million nurses in the U.S."

The KaplanCollege.com School of Nursing is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Missouri Nurses Association, which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).

About NursingHands.com
NursingHands is the only comprehensive website for nurses, providing community, content, commerce and career management tools to meet their professional and personal needs. The site offers a dynamic platform for communication among and between nurses, a marketplace for purchasing nursing and medical supplies, tailored healthcare news and feature articles, and provides nurses with the training, education and career management resources necessary for their professional development. NursingHands, Inc. is headquartered at 60 E. 56th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10022.

About KaplanCollege.com
Launched in April 2000, KaplanCollege.com is a leading provider of online education for working professionals who want to advance their careers. Learners at KaplanCollege.com can find nearly 500 online professional development and continuing education courses, as well as certificate and degree programs. Programs are available in Nursing, Education, Criminal Justice, Law, Paralegal Studies, Business and Information Technology. KaplanCollege.com also includes Concord University School of Law, the nation's first online law school, and already the nation's second largest part-time law school. To date, more than 4,000 students have enrolled in KaplanCollege.com courses, and more than 500 students are enrolled in Concord Law School. KaplanCollege.com is a division of Kaplan, Inc.(www.kaplan.com), a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses, and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO).
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