Nurse Practitioners Provide Solutions to the Healthcare Crisis

November 15, 2011 By 1 Comment

(PR Newswire) Nurse practitioners (NPs) across the country are celebrating National NP Week, November 13 – 19.

As the healthcare provider shortage crisis looms, NPs offer the high-quality, cost-effective, patient-centered services needed to help solve the increasing demand for access to quality healthcare in the United States.

NPs are licensed, expert clinicians who have been providing primary, acute and specialty healthcare services for nearly half a century.  In addition to diagnosing and managing acute and chronic illness, NPs place a strong emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention, working as a partner with their patients to help them make educated healthcare decisions and healthy lifestyle choices. [Read more...]

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One tweeting nurse

November 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

(NursingTimes.net) Nurses are usually intrinsically social by nature. We like working in teams and we like to talk and reflect with colleagues about the care we offer; often it’s the way we learn and develop our skills.

For some nurses, like myself, who do not work in the same team every day, making sure I have this support and opportunity to reflect can be a challenge. This is my personal story of how I found social media could help me to find what I needed.

Social media seems to be taking over our lives. Many of us are tweeting and interacting with our friends on facebook, allowing us to keep in contact with those we love and follow those we aspire to be; but is it possible that social media could have a place in our professional lives too? Can nurses use social media to learn, to develop and to share experiences online? [Read more...]

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New $12 million nursing school begins construction in Abilene, Texas

November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

(Abilene Reporter News) Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s local School of Nursing is in line for a massive upgrade in the next several years.

Groundbreaking for the estimated $12 million facility happened Monday, and construction should be complete by the beginning of 2013.

The new nursing school will attach to Texas Tech’s local School of Pharmacy, 1718 Pine St. The current building stands several blocks south, at the corner of Third and Pine streets. [Read more...]

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Addict in nurse’s scrubs: Drugs ‘take over’

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(Star Tribune) Jim Kaju had been fired from his job at the University of Minnesota’s hospital, but he wasn’t going to let that stop his addiction.

On a spring afternoon in 2008, he donned scrubs, strolled through the main entrance and went straight for a storage room to find narcotics.

The former nursing aide and onetime cop had the guile to pass as a nurse and the savvy to find a restricted area where he would likely find leftover painkillers. [Read more...]

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Exeter, PA man hopes to give proper grave markers to Civil War nurses from Reading

November 13, 2011 By 1 Comment

Sometimes people once deemed indispensable are forgotten. And sometimes they are rediscovered – and recognized.

On the 150th anniversary of the Civil War this year, Neil Scheidt, 72, of Exeter Township, a retired electrical contractor, pursued his genealogical passion of finding thousands of Berks County veterans who served in the Civil War.

His ultimate intent is to mark their graves with Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) flag holders and flags. Scheidt is being aided in this flag memorial project by Barry L. Kauffman, superintendent of Alsace Cemetery at historic Alsace Lutheran Church, Muhlenberg Township. [Read more...]

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Student nurses left unprotected after being refused flu jab

November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

(NursingTimes.net) One in four student nurses are being prevented from getting vaccinated against seasonal flu because both NHS trusts and GPs are refusing them the jab, Nursing Times has discovered.

This is despite the government telling NHS managers that students involved in frontline care should be included in local immunisation programs.

Concerned student nurses contacted nursingtimes.net last week after being turned away by the trusts at which they are on placement and their GP.

Students said trusts told them to get the vaccine from their GP practice because they were not employees of the trust. But their GP told them to go to their trust for the jab because they did not fit the patient criteria that enabled the practice to receive a vaccination payment from their primary care trust. [Read more...]

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Hero Central: Nursing Student Uses CPR to Save Doctor

November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

(WGRZ.com) Erin Timberlake-Owens will never forget the day of August 24th. That’s the day the Trocaire College nursing student saved a life.

Erin had driven her husband and three children to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport so they could catch a cheaper, direct flight to Europe. They would normally fly out of Buffalo. But they wanted the direct flight because he had to manage their three young kids alone as she had to stay behind to attend classes at Trocaire.

Originally Erin was going to just drop them off and leave. But because they arrived so early she decided to wait with her family for their time to check the baggage. That change of airport and change in schedule literally put Erin in the right place at the right time. [Read more...]

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Nurse shortage expected in Palmetto State

November 10, 2011 By 1 Comment

(abc4 Charelston) Jobs can be hard to come by in this economy, but the future is certainly looking bright for those in nursing. Over 12,000 available positions are expected in the Palmetto State by 2020, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.

June Darby is an administrator of Neuroscience at MUSC and has been a nurse for over 30 years. She says there are two main reasons that there is a shortage of nurses — lack of funds and lack of faculty. She also says in 2009, there were about 40,000 students not accepted into nursing programs that were eligible.

Why? Because, there weren’t enough faculty members at many institutions throughout the country. [Read more...]

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Nursing Graduates Face a Changing Job Market

November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(The Lund Report) It took Jennifer Wieczorek, a 2008 graduate of Linfield College’s nursing program, a year and a half to find a job using her degree – and she was the last person in her cohort to do so.

While in school, Wierczorek had a verbal agreement with Legacy Good Samaritan that she’d work there as an operating room nurse upon graduation. But it took longer than expected to pass her board certification exams, and by the time she did, Legacy didn’t have a position for her anymore.

Newly graduated nurses face many of the same challenges as other college graduates, said Mary Rita Hurley, executive director of the Oregon Center for Nursing (OCN), a nonprofit nursing advocacy organization. When she graduated from nursing school 33 years ago, hospitals aggressively recruited nurses, she said. [Read more...]

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Swearing, spitting, choking: ER nurses endure this and more

November 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

(MSNBC) Tammy Mathews was working a late-night Sunday shift in an Alabama emergency department when a patient, drunk and high on drugs, grabbed her around the neck, choked her until she couldn’t breathe – and then spat in her face.

Jeaux Rinehart was staffing a Seattle emergency room when a patient in a triage room, upset that he couldn’t get methadone, pulled a billy club out of a backpack and beat Rinehart in the back of the head and across the face, breaking his cheekbone. [Read more...]

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