Nursing Shortage National Concern

Tens of thousands of hospital deaths every year can be blamed on a nationwide nursing shortage, according to a report released today by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
The private commission, which inspects and accredits hospitals, believes that a lack of nurses is to blame for thousands of deaths caused by problems [...]

Nursing job vacancy in St. John Health

Detroit is well served by its international quality healthcare facilities. You can find that many nursing job seekers from various parts of the world migrate to Detroit in search of greener pastures. Hospitals and nursing homes in the city are equipped with ultra modern infrastructure and well trained staff. Nursing staff in Detroit hospitals and [...]

Cancer Survivors Break Ground on Proton Therapy Center

Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]

Re-elect LaTourette in the 14th Congressional District

Steven C. LaTourette, 54, of Bainbridge Township, is seeking his eighth term in Congress. He was Lake County prosecutor before his election to Congress in 1994. LaTourette studied history at the University of Michigan and earned his law degree at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
Bill O’Neill, 61, of South Russell, resigned last year from the [...]

UMass Lowell ‘test’ drive nets $1M

Professor Stuart Mandell came to the Lowell Technological Institute in 1948, the first person around with a background in business administration.
He got an idea after a yearlong sabbatical to business school in Michigan.
“I said to myself, ‘I’d like to develop a program here,” Mandell said last night, as the business program that sprung from his [...]

Daily News: VA Expands Nursing Education Program

New partnerships between the Department of Veterans Affairs and “seven of the country’s finest nursing schools” will ensure “world-class healthcare for veterans,” according to a release from the VA.
The five-year, $40 million VA Nursing Academy expands opportunities for nursing students at VA facilities, adds faculty at the schools to enroll more baccalaureate students and increases [...]

How the Nursing Shortage Could Hurt Your Care

Since the eighth grade, Angela Crisp of Ventura, Calif., has known she wanted to be a nurse. In high school, she earned certification as a nursing assistant. Then, she enrolled at nearby California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) and launched into the prerequisites for a bachelor of science degree in nursing (BSN)—anatomy, physiology and medical [...]

Nurse Officer of the Day (NOD) RN

SALARY RANGE: 42,640.00 – 86,422.00 USD per year night differential, shift differential
OPEN PERIOD: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 to Sunday, August 31, 2008
Would you like to limit your commute? How about living in a small town, but have access to three large cities, one of which is only 90 miles away. Danville, IL offers [...]

Be a nurse in strange land

On a lazy October afternoon, the air crisp with autumn, Ler Bweh, a 25-year-old Karen refugee from Burma, lay on his stomach in his apartment, assembling a map-of-the-world puzzle. Slight and almost ethereal, with moist caramel skin and a diffident demeanor, Ler Bweh had been a geography teacher in the Mae La refugee camp on [...]

The first class of associate degree nursing students has graduated from Baker College of Cadillac

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 [...]