President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team will kick-start the process of healthcare reform with a series of meetings across the country, modeled on those his campaign held last summer.
“Providing quality affordable health care for all Americans is one of my top priorities for this country because our long-term fiscal prospects will have a hard time improving [...]

Name: Rebecca McClanahan
Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Truman State University (1975); Master of Science in Nursing, with a Clinical Nurse Specialty in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, MU (1982). Completed doctoral coursework (all but dissertation) toward a PhD in Nursing, University of Kansas.
Work Experience: State Representative, House District 2, elected in 2006; Serve on the [...]

Federal funding for nursing workforce development programs apparently is on target to rise slightly in 2005, but remains far short of levels sought by nursing advocates, according to the American Nurses Association.
A House subcommittee has approved a $5 million boost to the 2004 funding level of $147 million for scholarship, diversity grant, and loan repayment [...]

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 [...]

Eastern Industries will continue a paving project next week in the area of Water and Montgomery Streets, weather permitting. Parking on posted streets is prohibited.
Community service to be held Saturday
COAL TOWNSHIP — Participants in a community service program coordinated by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III are asked to meet at 9 a.m. Saturday [...]

Melissa Barber isn’t a nurse, but she often performs the duties of one. Barber, a teaching assistant in a special-needs class at Bush Elementary School in Salem, is one of a number of teacher aides, secretaries and school office workers who find themselves dispensing prescription medications, such as Ritalin, to children and helping with medical [...]

The American Nurses Association (ANA) announces its endorsement of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in the 2008 Presidential Election. The ANA represents the interests of the nation’s 2.9 million registered nurses.
“As President, Barack Obama will bring real change to our health care system,” said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR. “Nurses are consistently voted [...]

Gov. Bill Ritter signed two health-care bills into law today, one that establishes a pilot program for unprecedented collaboration between hospitals and nurses, and another that adds nursing-related quality measures to the Colorado Hospital Report Card.
Both bills are the result of the Governor’s Nurse Workforce & Patient Safety Task Force. Gov. Ritter signed them during [...]

Gov. Bill Ritter signed two health-care bills into law today, one that establishes a pilot program for unprecedented collaboration between hospitals and nurses, and another that adds nursing-related quality measures to the Colorado Hospital Report Card.
Both bills are the result of the Governor’s Nurse Workforce & Patient Safety Task Force. Gov. Ritter signed them during [...]

The Tennessee Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (TNAHSA) plans to honor Senator Diane Black with the Executive Leadership Award at their annual conference in Nashville on Tuesday, August 5. Black is being recognized for her long history of advocacy for Tennessee’s underprivileged, elderly and disabled, including her work with TNAHSA as sponsor [...]