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(Columbus Telegram) Six years ago our daughter was a patient in the intensive care unit.
This month she graduates with a nursing degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
We are so proud of her, of course. I know Emily must have a real passion for nursing because, frankly, a work wardrobe consisting of cartoon-covered smocks and running shoes doesn’t really fit my fashionista daughter. [Read more...]
(Mail Online) The nurses who treated one of the alleged Boston bombers have told how they could not stop themselves from soothing him with the words: ‘I am really sorry, hon’.
Medical staff said that just like any other patient they were reflexively affectionate to. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev they ‘did not see as a terrorist’. [Read more...]
(Medical Express) The April issue of the International Nursing Review reported the findings about the end-of-life preferences of 1,089 nurses in the first multinational and cross-cultural view of nurses’ end-of-life care choices.
Two factors influenced the care of people dying: lack of knowledge about the patient’s wishes and the call of duty, according to Joyce Fitzpatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN, from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and a lead investigator on the study. [Read more...]
(HuffingtonPost) It’s January 2004, I’m standing in a hallway at 8 p.m. outside of my six-week-old son’s hospital room in the Pediatric ICU (PICU) while doctors and nurses try to find a vein for blood tests. It’s been a brutal afternoon so far. I’ve been at the hospital since around 2 p.m. after driving frantically from my home in Connecticut with my 4-year-old and one-and-a-half-year-old because my newborn son, who had just recently been released from the Neonatal ICU (NICU), looked grey. He had become weaker as the day progressed and I knew there was something very wrong. His coughing, although weak, was thick, like he was choking. [Read more...]
(Boston.com) There’s a myth out there that most nurses work in hospitals. While it’s true that more than half of all nurses are employed by hospitals, nurses also provide healthcare in some unexpected locations, from homeless shelters and prisons to football arenas and camps. Often described as both an art and a science, nursing is a profession that reflects the varied passions and interests of its dedicated workers. As the largest component of the healthcare professions, nurses serve with a strong commitment to patient safety even as they work in roles that range from airlift nurse to professor, from telemetry specialist to hospice supervisor. [Read more...]
(Medical Express) Nurses asked to describe what makes a day at work extraordinary say it is making a difference to patients, even if that difference isn’t as grand as saving a life, according to researchers from the United States.
Writing in the journal Nursing Management the authors, from Bristol Hospital in Bristol, Connecticut, say that knowing what motivates nurses is important for healthcare managers. ‘ [Read more...]
(NurseFuture.com) The demand for skilled and qualified nurses is on the rise. The population is aging and the need for healthcare, including long-term and end-of-life care, is growing significantly. As a result of increasing demand, employers have shifted their recruitment efforts to target more men to fill this need. Colleges and universities have also responded by making more of an effort to recruit men into their nursing programs. [Read more...]
(Capitol Gazette) Thomas Conti still hears the cracks about his future profession. “Wait. You’re going to be a male nurse?’
But the 20-year-old nursing student at Anne Arundel Community College smiles as if he has discovered a well-kept secret. [Read more...]
(AARP) Most nurses are women, but the number of male nurses is growing and — no surprise — they earn more than their female counterparts.
A new study from the Census Bureau found that while thenursing profession is still overwhelmingly female, the percentage of male nurses has more than tripled, from under 3 percent in 1970 to nearly 10 percent in 2011. The biggest growth has been in nurse anesthetists, which also pays the most, where men’s representation has grown to 41 percent. [Read more...]
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