Reforming Care Delivery: How Will It Affect Your Nursing Career?

While no one knows whether Congress and the president will achieve comprehensive health care reform, nursing experts are convinced that, regardless of what happens in Washington, nurses will find greater career opportunities in the future.
From larger patient populations and greater demand to advances in telemedicine and more community-based, non-hospital careers, a number of factors are [...]

Effects of the Nursing Shortage

A study published in the January/February 2006 journal Health Affairs provides new evidence that if hospitals invest in appropriate Registered Nurse (RN) staffing, thousands of lives and millions of dollars could be saved each year. Specifically, the study shows that if hospitals increased RN staffing and hours of nursing care per patient, more than 6,700 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Nursing shortage make hospital improve working condition

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 [...]

Prestigious Magnet Designation Earned By Geisinger Medical Center

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has designated Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) as a Magnet hospital. The news came via a conference call to hospital administrators, nurses and staff who broke out with cheers and applause.
GMC joins an elite group of only 15 Pennsylvania hospitals – and only 294 hospitals in the United States that [...]

Pennsylvania Legislature Passes Bill To Limit Mandatory Overtime For Nurses, Health Care Workers

The Pennsylvania Legislature has approved legislation that would ban mandatory overtime for nurses at all health care facilities in the state, and Gov. Ed Rendell (D) is expected to sign the measure into law this week, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. The state Senate voted 49-0 to approve the bill last week, and the House [...]

CIGNA Foundation Invites Public to Free Forum on Maintaining a Healthy State of Mind

To help people maintain a healthy state of mind during tough times, the CIGNA Foundation is convening a community forum on Mind/Body Wellness in Philadelphia from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 15 at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel.
The Mind/Body Forum, second in a series hosted by the CIGNA Foundation, will bring together [...]

Survey report about nursing salary

Overall, nursing salaries vary depending on a number of factors:
* Level of education (degree type)
* Years of experience in a chosen field
* State and city where you work (cost of [...]

New store saves historic Mannington home

When an historic Mannington home was in danger of being torn down, the Barker family decided to buy the house and transform it into a country store called Country Prim and Folksy.
Rose Barker said the former owner of 204 Buffalo St. had been trying to sell the home, and an interested buyer was planning to [...]