Struggling to find enough doctors, nurses and linguists for the war effort, the Pentagon will temporarily recruit foreigners who have been living in the United States on student and work visas, or with refugee or political asylum status.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorized the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps to recruit certain legal [...]
It’s a grim diagnosis: As many as 200,000 more physicians will be needed in the next decade than medical schools will turn out, leading to a nationwide physician shortage just when millions of baby boomers are entering their later years.
The anticipated shortfall is already creating stiff competition among health care providers across the country to [...]
Corpus Christi with an estimated population of 285,267 in 2006 is Texas’ eighth-largest city. The economy of Corpus Christi is healthy and diversified. Corpus Christi has good economic growth and the unemployment rate is very low. The city’s healthcare facilities are well developed and as there are many good hospitals, there also many good nursing [...]
Travel nursing is a career choice that allows you to take short-term positions across the country. As a licensed nurse in time with a big nursing shortage you are in demand. Hospitals and clinics are willing to pay top dollar for nurses to fill in for short periods.
These nursing positions usually span 3 months to [...]
The following summarizes coverage of events and initiatives that seek to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
* Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma American Indian tribe a three-year, $1.5 million grant to go toward residential substance use treatments [...]
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 [...]
So, you want to go to one of the top nursing schools, take up nursing and be a well paid and steady employed nurse years from now? To achieve this and more, you have to scout for the top nursing schools that could give you the best level of education. You go here and there [...]
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc. (AllscriptsMisys) today begins its first day as a combined company with an ambitious plan to connect healthcare in order to improve quality, reduce errors and lower costs for the American healthcare system. Formed by the merger of a subsidiary of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. and Misys Healthcare Systems, LLC, the newly [...]
Date posted : 2/1/2006 5:56:44 PM
Job title : Registered Nurse - ICU
Professional discipline : Registered Nurse
Specialty : ICU
Employer name : Wilcox Memorial Hospital
Location : Lihue,HI
Shift : Rotating
Pay Rate : 35.36
Position type : Full-time
Job description : Administers professional nursing care to patients in accordance with accepted standards and hospital policy. Coordinates care planning with other disciplines.
Qualifications [...]
Take Care Health Systems, one of the largest managers of convenient care clinics and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walgreens has opened five Take Care Clinics at Walgreens drugstores in Fort Lauderdale. The clinics are walk-in, professional health care centers open seven days a week with extended evening and weekend hours. Take Care Health Systems now [...]
