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The nurses are leaving the profession

Kim at Emergiblog feels the way I used to feel about nursing. She loves taking care of patients and can’t picture doing anything else. The difference between her and I is that I lost that feeling LONG AGO and discovered I was trapped in a profession that was a dead end. Kim talks about the fact that nurses are leaving the profession. There’s a supposed nursing shortage (which I suspect is really... 

Cytokinetics says drug improves heart measures

Cytokinetics Inc said on Tuesday that interim results from a mid-stage trial of its experimental drug CK-1827452 showed that it induced significant improvements in patients with stable heart failure. The interim analysis involved 28 patients. The results, presented in Toronto at a meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America, demonstrated statistically significant correlations between levels of... 

Providence Medford nurses OK union

Nurses at Providence Medford Medical Center have voted to join the Oregon Nurses Association, the largest health care union in the state. Thursday’s vote at the hospital turned out 80 percent of the hospital’s nurses. The new bargaining unit will represent about 260 nurses. The Medford hospital is the third unit of more than 100 nurses to join the ONA in the past two years. The ONA represents... 

Army nurse Helen Fairchild wrote to her family in 1917

“Oh, the stories I’ll tell when I get home,” Army nurse Helen Fairchild wrote to her family in 1917. Fairchild was one of 64 nurses from Pennsylvania Hospital Unit who had volunteered to join the American Expeditionary Force after the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. She was not destined to tell the stories she mentioned. Nurse Fairchild died on Jan. 8, 1918,... 

The national nurses movement, and 59 percent of American physicians

The California Nurses Association or National Nurses Organizing Committee today launched a new series of profiles of real American patients that have seen their healthcare denied or delayed at the hands of insurance corporations, the kind of abuses that would end under a guaranteed healthcare system such as proposed in U.S. Rep. John Conyers’ HR 676. The “Health Insurance Casualty of the Day”... 

Nursing schools have been able to increase student capacity has declined sharply since 2003

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) today released preliminary survey data that show that enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs increased by 4.98 percent from 2006 to 2007. Though this marks the seventh consecutive year of enrollment growth, the rate at which nursing schools have been able to increase student capacity has declined sharply since 2003 when enrollment... 

The center, to be at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing

A new Bi-State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center, designed to help improve nursing environments in the Kansas City area, is being announced today by a group of partners and donors. The center, to be at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing, has the goal of retaining good nurses who are frustrated by low staffing numbers, high patient loads, and heavy paperwork burdens. Nearly $750,000...