‘Masters in Nursing Guides’ Helps Aspiring Healthcare Professionals Achieve Their Career Goals

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(SBWIRE) According to financial analysts, the field of healthcare has not only held its own during the recent economic downturn, it has also grown stronger. In fact, experts predict that careers in nursing and other healthcare-related areas will continue this pace and provide people with careers that are fulfilling, steady, and good sources of income.

While many people would like to get into the field of nursing—as a nurse practitioner, certified nurse anesthetist, licensed nurse midwife or other specialty—it can be challenging to know how to go about getting a masters degree in nursing.

A website has been getting a lot of attention lately for its comprehensive and helpful information, listings and reviews of top-tier accredited masters in nursing degree programs. [Read more...]

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Big Breakthrough for the Tiniest Hearts

February 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(Newswise) A novel feeding device developed at theUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing may decrease the risk of failure to thrive (FTT), which currently affects half of all newborns with congenital heart defects even after their surgical lesions are corrected.

Professor and nurse practitioner Barbara Medoff-Cooper, PhD, CRNP, of Penn Nursing invented a device that analyzes an infant’s ability to organize feeding by sucking, swallowing, and breathing effectively. This device, developed in collaboration with Penn bioengineers, allows healthcare professionals to assess infants at risk for dysfunctional feeding and poor weight gain as often seen in both premature infants and infants with complex congenital heart disease. The data also can be correlated with growth or developmental problems that may occur during the first year of life. [Read more...]

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Nurses prepare for expanded roles – New degree programs are one sign of a coming sea change in the health-care profession

February 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(buffnews.com) Jim Kaczor and Debbie Micholas spend a day once a week in nursing classes, but they hardly resemble your typical students.

Kaczor has more than two decades of experience as a nurse, while Micholas is newer to the field after working for many years in business offices.

They will earn bachelor’s degrees this May, part of the first class to graduate from an “RN to BSN” program organized by Niagara University and Catholic Health. [Read more...]

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Nurses prepare for expanded roles

February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Jim Kaczor and Debbie Micholas spend a day once a week in nursing classes, but they hardly resemble your typical students.

Kaczor has more than two decades of experience as a nurse, while Micholas is newer to the field after working for many years in business offices.

They will earn bachelor’s degrees this May, part of the first class to graduate from an “RN to BSN” program organized by Niagara University and Catholic Health. [Read more...]

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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Nurses Present Research

February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(Nurse.com) Nurses from the Hospital of the University of Pennyslvania, Philadelphia, presented work on cultural competency at the 22nd International Nursing Research Congress last summer in Cancun, Mexico.

The conference is presented annually by Sigma Theta Tau International, the honor society of nursing. [Read more...]

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When it hurts to help; Professor wants more workplace safety training to prevent gun violence for nurses

January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(Ball State Daily News) Nursing programs around the nation are missing a key component, according to a study done by a professor who advocates for stronger programs on safety and gun violence.

For assistant professor JagdishKhubchandani, the issue hit home when a colleague was shot by her patient. He and the woman were planning to conduct a study together on gun violence against nurses.

“Unfortunately, she is no more now,”Khubchandani said. “She was shot by a patient, who was so psychotic he killed the best physician he ever got.” [Read more...]

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46-year-old nursing student graduates with a 4.0 GPA

January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(NeoshoDailyNews) While graduating from a nursing program with a 4.0 grade point average is a large feat for any traditional college student, for recent Crowder College graduate, Denisa Simpson, the experience was anything but traditional.

Simpson, 46 of Webb City, said college was never something she had planned on doing.

“It wasn’t really a thing they pushed when I was growing up,” Simpson said. [Read more...]

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NY bill would require 4-year registered nursing degrees, raising concern amid nurse shortage

January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

(Washington Post) New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor’s degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, even as the health care industry faces staffing shortages.

The “BSN in 10” initiative backed by nursing associations and major health policy organizations aims to attack the complex problem of too few nurses trained to care for an aging population that includes hundreds of thousands of nurses expected to retire in the coming years. But some in the health care industry worry that increased education requirements could worsen the problem by discouraging entrants into the field. [Read more...]

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Four-year degree requirement for new registered nurses up for debate

January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(McKnights) New York lawmakers are debating a bill that would require all new nurses to get a bachelor’s degree within 10 years of earning their two-year associate’s degree.

New York legislators have received support from nursing associations and health policy groups for a proposed “BSN in 10” initiative, the Associated Press reported. The statewide requirement is intended to address a pending nursing shortage, and boost the skills for a workforce that soon will be caring for a rapidly aging population, policy experts say. [Read more...]

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Nurses graduate into tough job market

January 3, 2012 By 1 Comment

(Lohud.com) Although Matthew Jaen graduated among the top nursing students in his class last year, he has yet to find full-time employment.

“I thought it would be fairly easy to get a job,” said the 30-year-old Bronx resident, who graduated in May from the Cochran School of Nursing at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers. “There is a need, but hospitals aren’t willing to hire.”

Jaen has been looking for full-time hospital work since February. For now, he works 22 hours a week with a home health-care agency, taking care of a 3-year-old boy with a respiratory condition, and what he earns goes to helping his grandmother, he said. [Read more...]

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