New York travel nursing jobs to help cancer patients

Pink ribbons have long been synonymous with Breast Cancer Awareness, but there’s another advocacy group helping women who face a different cancer diagnosis: ovarian cancer; its ribbon is teal blue.
RNs are a critical part of the medical team treating a woman with cancer, which, you could say, is women helping women; according to the U.S. [...]

The Nursing Shortage and Its Effects on Patient Care

The healthcare industry has many challenges to face when it is delivering its services to patients. Not only are there an unbelievable number of diseases and illnesses to diagnose and treat but there is also the need to treat these illnesses in a timely manner. One of the most prevalent issues in the healthcare industry [...]

Investigation Temp Firms Often Employ Incompetent Nurses

Firms that supply temporary nurses to the nation’s hospitals are taking perilous shortcuts in their screening and supervision, sometimes putting seriously ill patients in the hands of incompetent or impaired caregivers,” ProPublica and The Los Angeles Times report. “Emboldened by a chronic nursing shortage and scant regulation, the firms vie for their share of a free-wheeling, $4-billion industry. Some have become havens for nurses who hopscotch from place to place to avoid the consequences of their misconduct.

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 [...]

Score Big With One-of-a-Kind Swarovski Encrusted SCRABBLE(R) Board

To celebrate the Diamond Anniversary of the game of SCRABBLE, Hasbro Inc. is auctioning off a one-of-a-kind SCRABBLE: Swarovski Encrusted Board Edition, featuring more than 30,000 sparkling Swarovski crystals to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The winning bidder will get the game — and a brush with fame. The board was the centerpiece of [...]

Top of nursing job in Buffalo

There are a number of nursing services and agencies in Buffalo who have painstakingly been committed to serve the community for a better and healthier tomorrow. These health units have contributed significantly to the welfare of the sick and aged and helped build a strong moral bonding within the community. New technological advancement in the [...]

Saint John’s Health Center to Unveil One of a Kind Digital Media Artwall Featuring Local Artists

Saint John’s Health Center fuses art and healing in a completely unique way with a new Media Artwall planned for the new state-of-the-art Howard Keck Diagnostic and Treatment Center that is scheduled to open next year. The interactive feature is the first digital art program of its kind and is comprised of 16 50-inch video [...]

Seminar for Haywood Regional Medical Center’s Nursing Grand Rounds

To understand the Cherokee people, one must first know the history of these Native Americans, said Quana Winstead, who works as a physician’s assistant at the Cherokee Diabetes Clinic. Winstead was the guest speaker for Haywood Regional Medical Center’s Nursing Grand Rounds seminar.
Indian flute music softly played while warm bowls of corn chowder and thick [...]

The Perils Of Pre-Existing Conditions And The Struggle Of 29-Year-Old Critical Care Nurse

“Due to the high stress I have experienced as a registered nurse in a critical-care environment, and sometimes the requirement to work odd shifts, I developed a condition called irritable bowel syndrome with abdominal pain and constipation,” said Tina Marino from Phoenix, Arizona. “As a result of my diagnosis, I am unable to secure individual [...]

Major Research Project Highlights The Changing Face Of Nurses In Films Over The Last 100 Years

An extensive study of how the nursing profession has been portrayed in films over the last century has shown that unflattering stereotypes are becoming less common and nurses are now being portrayed in a more positive light.
Australian nurse researcher Dr David Stanley reviewed more than 36,000 film synopses and watched 280 films made between 1900 [...]