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 [...]

Is the Nursing Shortage Over?

Last week Virginia’s Healthcare Workforce Data Center presented a snapshot of the state’s nursing workforce and reported, “The current state of the economy is leading many nurses to remain in the workforce longer than anticipated. If they delay retirement by as few as two years, Virginia is more likely to meet 2013 – 2015 demand [...]

Effects of the Nursing Shortage

A study published in the January/February 2006 journal Health Affairs provides new evidence that if hospitals invest in appropriate Registered Nurse (RN) staffing, thousands of lives and millions of dollars could be saved each year. Specifically, the study shows that if hospitals increased RN staffing and hours of nursing care per patient, more than 6,700 [...]

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 [...]

Unanimous Vote Creates Largest RN Union In U.S. History California Nurses Association

The promise of the future has arrived, said Karen Higgins, an RN from Massachusetts, and one of three newly elected presidents of the NNU, “with all the unlimited potential, creativity, vision, and power represented” by the delegates in the room, and the 150,000 members of the founding organizations.

NNU unites three of the most active, progressive organizations in the U.S.-and the major voices of unionized nurses-in the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses, and Massachusetts Nurses Association.

Royal College Of Nursing Responds To Publication Of NHS 2010-2015: From Good To Great, UK

Responding to the publication of NHS 2010-2015: From Good to Great, Janet Davies, Executive Director of Nursing at the Royal College of Nursing, said:
“There is much to welcome in today’s announcement on the future plans for the NHS. In today’s tough economic climate, it is absolutely right that we target resources at the frontline. We know that demand for healthcare is increasing and that is why we cannot afford to cut nursing numbers to meet efficiency savings. The need for people-centred, quality care depends upon the current and future supply of skilled healthcare workers.

Breaking Lower Back Work Beliefs Contribute To Health Workers Pain

Jette Nygaard Jensen and colleagues from the National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark set out to investigate the association between physical work load and lower back pain (LBP), and whether fear-avoidance beliefs had a predictive effect on developing LBP. Fear-avoidance beliefs involve avoiding physical activities that are expected to cause pain, although [...]

Top lists of nursing job in Colorado Springs

Medical and healthcare sector in Colorado Springs is developing rapidly. All types of medical facilities are available in the city. There are numerous hospitals and healthcare centres in Colorado Springs. Almost all the hospitals offer nursing jobs in the city. Colorado Springs hospitals employ nurses in all specialities. Some of the leading hospitals in the [...]

Nursing Jobs in Anaheim United State

There are various premiere nursing care facilities in Anaheim, which offer dedicated services to its patients through various comprehensive health care programs. Theses nursing facilities are staffed with workers with years of experience in the industry who are prepared to face numerous new challenges in attending to patients with critical illnesses and ailments. These facilities [...]

Community Nursing ‘Out Of Policy Loop’ In New NHS Reports, UK

The latest thinking on nursing’s future is biased towards the acute sector, and not enough weight is given to community practitioners, Unite, the largest union in the country, said today.
Unite/Community Practitioner’s and Health Visitors’ Association said that the Department of Health (DH) was ‘leaving community nursing and health visiting out of the intellectual loop’.
Unite/CPHVA was [...]