Cambridge Who’s Who Honors JoAnn C. Green for Excellence in Nursing Consultancy Services

March 11, 2010 Filed Under: Nursing Information

JoAnn C. Green, a critical care nursing consultant and Clinical Education Specialist at Tampa General Hospital, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in nursing consultancy services and clinical education.
Skilled in the field of critical and cardiac care nursing, JoAnn C. Green is noted for her adept ability to [...]

Data to Help Make Informed Decisions About Nursing Homes in MA

March 6, 2010 Filed Under: Nursing home

The decision to place an elderly loved one in an unfamiliar setting, such as a nursing home or other skilled care facility, is never easy. Unless you have had direct experience with nursing homes, it is difficult to know what to expect. It is also challenging to weed through the varying reports associated with nursing [...]

New York travel nursing jobs to help cancer patients

March 5, 2010 Filed Under: Traveling Nurse

Pink ribbons have long been synonymous with Breast Cancer Awareness, but there’s another advocacy group helping women who face a different cancer diagnosis: ovarian cancer; its ribbon is teal blue.
RNs are a critical part of the medical team treating a woman with cancer, which, you could say, is women helping women; according to the U.S. [...]

Job Information and Requirements for a Career in Clinical Data Management

February 28, 2010 Filed Under: Nurse Job search

Clinical Data Managers may hold a certificate, associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree, combined with on-the-job training. Clinical Data Managers can also pursue professional certification. Related careers are medical and clinical manager, clinical laboratory technician and technologist, clinical research associate and researcher.
Career Definition: Clinical Data Manager
Clinical Data Managers are directly involved with clinical research for pharmaceutical [...]

Illinois programs tackle Africa’s nursing shortage

February 17, 2010 Filed Under: 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 [...]

West Virginia has a nursing shortage

February 16, 2010 Filed Under: Nursing Shortage

Martinsburg’s West Virginia University Hospitals-East will soon undergo a $28 million expansion, which will allow the emergency department alone to treat 20,000 more patients per year, said Teresa McCabe, the facility’s vice president for marketing and development.
“We currently see about 45,000 patients a year in our emergency department, and it was not designed for that [...]

National American University Approved To Offer Nursing Program In South Dakota

February 11, 2010 Filed Under: Nursing Degree Programs

National American University (”NAU”) , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of National American University Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) (OTCBB: NAUH), today announced that it has been approved by the South Dakota Board of Nursing to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program in South Dakota. The BSN program will be offered [...]

Hopkins Nursing Center Offers E-Support To Nurses, Midwives In Haiti

February 11, 2010 Filed Under: Careers in Nursing, Health care, Nursing Information

In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center has been actively assisting Haitian nurses and midwives from afar, gathering nursing education materials and making them available electronically.
As co-director of the Collaborating Center, Associate Professor Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, manages the Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery [...]

Nurses Bring Aged Care Reform Debate To Canberra, Australia

February 10, 2010 Filed Under: Health care, Nursing Information, Nursing home

Aged care nurses and nursing home residents from across Australia are coming to Canberra to issue a united plea to the Federal overnment: make Budget 2010 the aged care budget.
ANF Federal Secretary Ged Kearney, together with 20 concerned aged care nurses and residents, will meet with MP’s and Senators to push for increased funding to [...]

Flu Vaccination Rate At BJC HealthCare Rises Dramatically Due To Mandatory Policy

February 7, 2010 Filed Under: Health care

Making flu shots mandatory in 2008 dramatically increased the vaccination rate among St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare’s nearly 26,000 employees to more than 98 percent, according to a report now online in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The study’s lead author, infectious disease specialist Hilary Babcock, M.D., says the success of the mandatory program demonstrates it is [...]