The Wilmington News Journal on Tuesday published two articles about the state’s looming nursing shortage. Summaries appear below.
* Nursing school: The News Journal examined how the lack of qualified faculty at nursing schools in the state contributes to a bottleneck of nursing students. According to the Delaware Health Care Commission, there [...]

Betty Newman was born in 1924 at Lowell, Ohio, United States of America. In 1947 she received RN Diploma from Peoples Hospital School of Nursing, Akron, Ohio. She then moved to California and gained experience as a hospital, staff, and head nurse; school nurse and industrial nurse; and as a clinical instructor in medical-surgical, critical [...]

NASCAR drivers helped spread Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s NASCAR creed: Go Pink or Go Home! NASCAR drivers Kyle Busch, Bobby Labonte and Elliott Sadler will Go Pink at today’s Bank of America 500 race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C.
While it is uncommon to see drivers in pink during a NASCAR race, [...]

Thought you’d be interested in a reader response I got to a column from a couple weeks ago about “Jane,” a registered nurse with a master’s degree in counseling who, because of health issues, now lives in subsidized housing and relies on the Food Bank of San Luis Obispo County for groceries.
“I have some ideas [...]

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 [...]

Brittany Nicole Wilson, 23, died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, at North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born on Aug. 5, 1985, in Tupelo to Mike Wilson and Robin Rollins Wilson Grass. She graduated from Shannon High School in 2003 and attended Itawamba Community College. She was employed as a waitress [...]

West Shore Medical Center recently presented four area high school seniors with scholarships of $500: Joshua Briggs, an Onekama High school graduate, who will be attending Grand Valley State University to study pre-medicine; Julia Kedrowski, a Manistee High School graduate who is attending Grand Valley State University to study nursing and hopes to become a [...]

In 2002, Larry May boarded a flight at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport for a business trip across the chilly blue Atlantic. The curious thing about the Hurst nursing home executive’s travel was that it took him to a rendezvous with a rented mailbox in England. He made the 4,500-mile journey to Europe and mailed letters. To [...]

Jurors began hearing testimony in a wrongful death case involving a woman who was a patient for three months at a local nursing home.
Attorneys expect the trial to last two weeks as a jury weighs whether Heartland of Charleston contributed to the death of Betty Wolfe, 77, of Elkview. Her family filed a lawsuit in [...]