Emagister Notices an Increase in Online Searches for Nursing Degrees

The rise in Nursing Degree searches online corroborates the growing need for Registered Nurses (RN’s) to take the place of retiring nurses in hospitals and other health care facilities.
Registered Nursing is considered one of the fastest growing career fields in the United States with over 587,000 positions projected to open up by 2016. Searches [...]

Data to Help Make Informed Decisions About Nursing Homes in MA

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 [...]

The Effects of Health Care Reform, or No Reform, on America’s Nurses

Along with insurance issues and patient protections, the documents spelling out the plans for health care reform contain several provisions to increase the supply of nurses and support nursing education and training. What will happen to these provisions–and the future nursing workforce–if reform isn’t passed in the near future?
Nursing leaders are clinging to hope, [...]

ANA Rallies Members Around Importance of Advance Healthcare Directives In Support Of National Healthcare Decisions Day

The American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the U.S., urges all members to lead by example in a national campaign April 16, 2010 to build awareness of the importance of completing “advance directives” for personal health care. ANA joins dozens of national, state, and community organizations in its strong support of the [...]

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 National Concern

Tens of thousands of hospital deaths every year can be blamed on a nationwide nursing shortage, according to a report released today by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
The private commission, which inspects and accredits hospitals, believes that a lack of nurses is to blame for thousands of deaths caused by problems [...]

West Virginia has a 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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Study Finds Nurse Educators Significantly Increase Awareness For Product Launch

Quintiles have announced findings from a recent study from a program in which a team of 19 nurse educators helped raise awareness of a newly approved oncology drug for a major pharmaceutical company from 37% to 57%. The results are from an awareness study of 150 clinical practice registered nurses who were provided a survey [...]