Most Wired Survey Deadline Extended by Four Days

AHA’s Hospitals & Health Networks magazine has extended to March 19 the deadline for submitting responses to its 2010 Most Wired Survey. The unprecedented extension is needed as survey staff will not have access to e-mail March 11-14 because the AHA’s Chicago offices will be relocating. While the survey Web site will be unaffected by [...]

Illinois programs tackle Africa’s nursing shortage

Nurse Theresa Poole spent her days this month offering health screening and medications as a volunteer in the Republic of Zambia. She delivered analgesics to suffering patients and taught HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.
Poole returned home Wednesday to her job at the Rosewood Care Centers, residential centers serving several communities in Illinois. In Africa, she served [...]

Nursing Shortage looms

In the midst of a national nursing shortage, Indiana nursing programs rejected about 2,500 qualified applicants because of a lack of full-time faculty, according to a survey of state nursing programs.
The 2008 survey by the Indiana Nursing Workforce Development Coalition said faculty shortages prevent nursing programs from maintaining a supply of qualified applicants.
With a looming [...]

National Conference Call Thursday For 1,500 RN Volunteers For Haiti Relief Effort

More than 1,500 registered nurses from across the U.S. have responded in less than one day to the call by the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses for volunteers to provide assistance to residents of earthquake devastated Haiti -leading the RNs to now issue an urgent appeal for the public to support these efforts with donations of funds to support travel costs and medical supplies on their upcoming emergency nursing mission.

How can I become a nurse in Chicago without an undergraduate degree in nursing?

Liv asked: I am looking into nursing programs and I know that there are schools that offer nursing degree programs where students can get their degree in a shorter time no matter what undergraduate degree they already have. Is there any in CHICAGO?!?
I am looking to move to chicago and really need help finding [...]

Most searches nursing job in Chicago

Nursing personnel around the world come to Chicago, and you will find fabulous opportunities you wouldn’t have seen elsewhere. There is intense presence of hospitals, health spas, nursing placement agencies, nursing agencies, and many others in Chicago whom you can rely upon for a bright career. The healthcare industry in this city has seen admirable [...]

Humanitarian Offers $75 Million for Single Dose Sterilization of Cats and Dogs

Humanitarian, Dr. Gary Michelson is “making an unprecedented investment on behalf of companion animals,” says Aimee Gilbreath, Executive Director of Found Animals Foundation http://www.foundanimals.org, Michelson’s privately funded 501(c)3.
Found Animals and its strategic partner the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs announced the launch of The Michelson Prize in Reproductive Biology at the SPAY/USA Conference [...]

Cancer Survivors Break Ground on Proton Therapy Center

Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]

Monigle Associates Wins Platinum at HealthLeaders Media Marketing Awards

Monigle Associates, a Denver-based agency that helps clients nationwide build and activate brands, was awarded a Platinum Award from HealthLeaders Media in Chicago on Wednesday, October 15 for its national efforts on behalf of Shriners Hospitals for Children. The campaign, “Defy the Odds”, won top honors in the Large Children’s Hospital campaign category. A panel [...]

Talking about travel nursing

Travel nursing is a career choice that allows you to take short-term positions across the country. As a licensed nurse in time with a big nursing shortage you are in demand. Hospitals and clinics are willing to pay top dollar for nurses to fill in for short periods.
These nursing positions usually span 3 months to [...]