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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mental Health America Hosts “Inaugural Mental Health Promotion and Prevention Summit”

This June 6-7 in Washington, D.C., Mental Health America will convene an extraordinary group of mental health experts, advocates, organizations and researchers committed to advancing a promotion and prevention agenda to drive down the tragically high rates and profound impact of mental health and substance use conditions in the United States.
The two-day event, entitled the [...]

Get your registered nurse at National American University Online

Quality accredited education is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, locally, nationally and globally through National American University’s (NAU) distance learning program. Since its beginnings in 1941, National American University has been a cornerstone of higher education, keeping pace with the ever-changing advancements of technology, while holding onto core values that provide [...]

The Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing will position you for leadership roles

Quality accredited education is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, locally, nationally and globally through National American University’s (NAU) distance learning program. Since its beginnings in 1941, National American University has been a cornerstone of higher education, keeping pace with the ever-changing advancements of technology, while holding onto core values that provide [...]

HomeHealth Visiting Nurses recently presented $100 scholarships to 12 graduating seniors from York County high schools

Elizabeth Shannon Thompson of Kennebunkport received her bachelor of arts degree (magna cum laude) with honor from Mount Holyoke College on May 25.
Thompson majored in music and minored in psychology. She studied voice and played violin and piano, performing chamber music and with the orchestra. She volunteered as an orientation leader, worked as a music [...]

Doris L. Manatt was a 1941 graduate of Leominster High School and graduated from the Burbank School of Nursing, Class of 1945, in Fitchburg as a registered nurse

Paul Florent Gibson, 89, of Manassas, formerly of Acton, died Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, at Manassas Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Born March 5, 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pa., he was the son of Florent and Beatrice Wertz Gibson. On Nov. 4, 1941 in Pittsburgh, he married the former Jeanne (Shangraw) Sheldon who preceded him in death on [...]

Nursing shortage is fueled by increasing needs of the aging baby-boomer population

With a push toward outpatient services and changes in medical coverage, demand for outpatient infusion therapy nurses is expected to rise.
And that could mean jobs for those in this specialty nursing field.
Outpatient infusion therapy – the practice of administering medicines and fluids into patients’ bloodstreams through intravenous devices – could gain in popularity as hospitals [...]

a master’s degree in nursing education from a Caldwell online college

Janet Killen invested $5,500 and four years of her life getting what she thought was a master’s degree in nursing education from a Caldwell online college.
When she presented her degree in 2007 to Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore., where she teaches nursing, she was dumbfounded when administrators told her it was worthless in her [...]