Nursing is experienced at some time by almost everybody.It is done by millions of nurses across the world,yet it is still difficult to describe and is poorly understood.In 1859 Florence Nightingale wrote: “The elements of nursing are all but unknown.” 5 In the 21st century the statement is still true.
Some people associate nursing with the [...]

The nursing shortage has resulted in a huge demand for qualified registered nurses (RNs) across the country. To help with the influx of nursing students, many schools have developed online versions of their traditional nursing programs to make quality nursing education more widely available. Online nursing education offers many advantages, including more flexible class scheduling, [...]

PinnacleHealth received the prestigious Magnet recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Magnet designation is a hallmark of quality and represents our commitment to the highest national standards for practice and professional development. PinnacleHealth nurses have distinguished themselves in other ways as well, as evidenced by the many awards and accolades [...]

One of the most complex and demanding areas of nursing. As many as one in three people are thought to suffer some form of mental health problem. For many, mental illness is brought on by a crisis in life, which they can’t cope with, such as depression after the death of a partner. A mental [...]

A practice nurse who held morning surgeries while the doctor was on holiday has been let off with a caution.
Glynis Cottam (57), saw patients and dished out drugs after being asked to help out by Dr John Gray at the Crofton Street Surgery, Oldham.
The GP gave her pre-signed blank prescriptions even though she was not [...]

Half the residents of New Orleans were suffering from poor mental and physical health more than a year after their homes and community were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, according to research published in the September issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing.
Researchers from Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California, spoke [...]

The National Labor Relations Board set the date for the election after some hospital nurses asked the New York State Nurses Association to represent them.
The nurses wanted a unified voice to help address workplace issues such as insufficient staffing, noncompetitive salaries and lack of incentives to retain experienced nurses, according to Mark Genovese, spokesman for [...]

When Cam Traut graduated from Libertyville High School in 1982, she never thought she would walk through those doors again as an employee years later.
But in 2004, she returned to Libertyville as the school’s nurse. And in October, she will get a new title — president-elect of the Illinois Association of School Nurses. Traut has [...]

The federal government has awarded a grant of nearly $706,000 to UNC Charlotte School of Nursing faculty members Lienne Edwards and Tama Morris.
The Nursing Workforce Diversity grant will fund a three-year effort to increase nursing-education opportunities for educationally disadvantaged and minority students.
The grant will result in the addition of 30 students to the UNC Charlotte [...]

The need for appropriate school nurse-to-student ratios in every Pennsylvania school is one of the state’s most urgent healthcare issues, according to the Pennsylvania Nursing Congress on Practice, Education and Policy. During its first working session held near Harrisburg, the Congress voted to address school nurse-to-student ratios.
The Congress is bringing this issue before the Cabinet [...]