Nursing is the second fastest growing occupation in the US according to the Department of Labor. Applications to nursing programs are up but the country cannot train all those interested in becoming RNs. In 2005 147,000 qualified applicants were turned away from America ’s nursing schools. That’s because there is a shortage of faculty. 50 [...]

There have been shortages of nurses in this country since the 1960’s but they have always resolved themselves fairly quickly. This nursing shortage, which began in 1998, not only persists but is expected to get a lot worse.
80 million baby boomers are slated to retire in the next decade and they will need a lot [...]

A third type of shortage may occur where there is a lack of general agreement or awareness that nursing is even needed to care for a given patient population. Once again, the current situation in the United States may to some extent reflect this type of shortage, since recent hospital restructuring has often entailed nurse [...]

A second type of shortage may occur where there is a lack or perceived lack of funds to finance nursing positions that are generally understood to be needed. For instance, a given facility decision-maker may understand that a particular unit shift really needs five nurses, but have the funds for only three positions. This is [...]

A nurse—whether working in a family clinic or large hospital—is responsible for a majority of patient care. Nurses perform some of the most important duties during a patient’s stay at the hospital, from monitoring vital signs to administering necessary medications. Nurses also provide a human face to what can sometimes be a cold, sterile environment. [...]

The profession is facing a unique shortage of nursing faculty. Schools of Nursing have always had a shortage of doctorally prepared nursing faculty. The academic norm for faculty teaching in baccalaureate and graduate programs to hold earned doctoral degrees was established later in nursing than for other disciplines. At best, 50% of nursing faculty in [...]

Health workers across the NHS are facing severe hardship due to the current economic crisis and the effect of a below inflation pay deal. With inflation running at a 16-year high, NHS unions have joined forces to press the Government to reopen pay talks for next year. The unions argue that the three-year pay deal [...]

Nurse Jennifer Dimmick helped her 71-year-old patient, George Mulligan, struggle from a chair to his feet for his daily walk around the corridor outside his hospital room.
In the days after Mulligan’s aortic valve replacement surgery, Dimmick was preparing him to care for himself after his discharge, showing him ways to lift himself while protecting his [...]

With a nod to the town’s strained economy, the Board of Education unanimously approved a new teachers contract Tuesday night that gives salary hikes totalling about 3.4 percent over the next two years.
In the final year of the three-year contract, salaries and insurance costs for the estimated 380 teachers represented by the New Milford Education [...]

When Tremayne Jackson was a child, he didn’t want to be a famous athlete. He didn’t want to be an astronaut or a senator. All Jackson wanted was to drive an ambulance.
So it should come as little surprise that Jackson has been a paramedic with the St. Louis City Fire Department for the past [...]