The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department recognizes National Nurse Week from May 6 – May 12, 2012 in honor of the leadership, advocacy, and caring that nurses provide to our health care system. A proclamation acknowledging the commitment of local registered nurses toward improving the health care needs of our communities will be presented by Supervisor Steve Lavagnino at the May 1, 2012 at the Board of Supervisor’s meeting in Santa Barbara. [Read more...]
Happy Nurse’s Day
Nurse is serious about making people laugh
(KC Community News) Logan-Magnolia School Nurse Melissa Meeker, knows she is in the perfect place for her career path, as National Nurses Week is celebrated this week.
“I love the kids,” Meeker said. “I love their smiles and hugs. They are always happy to see me and I’m always happy to see them. They show so much excitement.”
Meeker has served as the School Nurse at Lo-Ma since 1996, shortly after she received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Clarkson Nursing School in Omaha. [Read more...]
Suburban nurses: Be careful in cutting hospital funds
(Daily Herald) Kelly Jantz knows how to work magic on her patients. “I love being a nurse,” said Jantz, RN and float nurse in the medical-surgical unit at North Kansas City Hospital. “I love taking care of patients. It feels so good to make a difference in so many people.”
Every Wednesday, Jantz appears in a vintage nursing uniform wheeling her cart of nontraditional nursing sup-plies. Stuffed animals, clown noses, big combs, television comedy DVDs, old-time radio recordings, oversized sun-glasses, magic tricks and joke cards are some of the ever-changing props she uses in laugh therapy with staff members, pa-tients and their families. The program she dubbed PHIL, Positive Hopeful Individuals Laughing, has serious outcomes, Jantz said. [Read more...]
Survey: 71 percent of US nurses use smartphones
(MobiHealthNews.com) According to a recent survey conducted by Wolters Kluwer Health’s Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), 71 percent of nurses are already using smartphones for their job. The survey included responses from 3,900 nurses and nursing students. About 66 percent of those nursing students surveyed said they use their smartphones for nursing school.
Overall, 85 percent of the nurses and nursing students said they want a smartphone app version of LWW’s Nursing 2013 Drug Handbook. Some 87 percent of those surveyed said they would want a smartphone app version of the text as well as a print version. [Read more...]
What makes a great nurse?
(AJC.com) Nurses aren’t angels, but they may be the closest thing we have in the workplace.

While doctors diagnose illnesses and prescribe medication, surgery or other treatment, it’s often nurses who explain medical procedures, help manage symptoms, respond to emergencies, listen to family concerns, allay patient fears, soothe worries and find ways to make difficult situations bearable. [Read more...]
How young nurses are invigorating the profession
(AJC.com) Take a look around the halls of today’s hospitals and other health care facilities and you’ll find fresh faces.

You know you’re a nurse when …
(McKnight’s) OK, I can’t help myself. I’m in an incredibly silly mood as I sit to write my blog today. And I was thinking about how we as nurses see the world differently from “normal” folks. We are a sister- and brotherhood of odd humorists. Because if we can’t laugh at it, we can’t be a nurse!
You know you’re a nurse when … : [Read more...]
Former nurse breaks the rules to help her patients
Maryann Austin knew from a young age that she wanted to be a nurse, but she didn’t plan on being a trailblazer as well.
Holding a number of nursing jobs, Maryann, who was widowed in her mid-20s, tackled such issues as racial prejudice and was among the first women with dependent children to be allowed to enlist in the military.
Born in the Bronx, N.Y., and raised “up and down” the southern half of the East Coast because her dad was in the Marines, Maryann considers Camp Lejeune, N.C., home. [Read more...]
Health Care Without Harm Announces 2012 Nurses Awards
(MarketWatch) The Health Care Without Harm Nurses Workgroup ( www.noharm.org/us_canada/nurses/ ) in conjunction with The Luminary Project ( www.theluminaryproject.org ), has named Dr. Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, APRN, PHCNS-BC, FAAOHN, as the 2012 Recipient of the Charlotte Brody Award. Dr. Chalupka is Professor of Public Health Nursing and Chair of the Dr. Lillian R. Goodman Department of Nursing at Worcester State University and also holds an appointment as a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. HCWH also named Morgan Lincoln as the winner of the Hollie Shaner-McRae Nursing Student Essay Contest. [Read more...]





