UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, will support The DAISY Foundation’s The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, a national program to recognize nurses, at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. UnitedHealthcare’s support brings total grant contributions to nearly $46,000 to the DAISY Foundation since 2006.
The DAISY Award at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta will take place on [...]

The American Nurses Association (ANA) announces its endorsement of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in the 2008 Presidential Election. The ANA represents the interests of the nation’s 2.9 million registered nurses.
“As President, Barack Obama will bring real change to our health care system,” said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR. “Nurses are consistently voted [...]

Concept Media, a leading producer and distributor of healthcare education media, has teamed up with Penn Foster, one of the world’s largest online career schools, to distribute programs focused on Maternal and Childhood Development through their new online bookstore. With healthcare employment needs on the rise, this partnership could not have been better timed.
“Our relationship [...]

The American Red Cross said yesterday that it has depleted its national disaster relief fund and is taking out loans to pay for shelters, food and other relief services across seven Midwestern states battered by floods.
Officials at the charity estimated that efforts in the Midwest will cost more than $15 million and warned that the [...]

One big factor in America’s nursing shortage is a lack of people who can teach nursing.
So, to boost faculty ranks, two Berks County colleges have joined a growing number of schools offering master’s degree programs in nursing.
Alvernia College will officially start its program in January, but some students already are lined up to begin courses [...]

Treasure Coast hospitels as a strong service industry and educational system can’t supply US nurses again because a lot of they need and increasing dramatically an aging population in America country, US needed estmate 30,000 nurses a year.
But Treasure Coast hospital officials say they have plenty of nurses for the foreseeable future, thanks in part [...]

one of America’s leading home health nursing companies, today announced that there has been very limited damage and disruptions to its field offices and network systems because of hurricane Gustav. While south Louisiana has experienced significant power outages and damages, the Amedisys corporate headquarters has experienced minimal disruption and all core corporate functions are operational. [...]

Joint Commission certified traveling nurse company, American Traveler, announced today a new video that brings the benefits and lifestyle of travel nursing to desktops around the globe in a dynamic multimedia presentation highlighting the travel nursing experiences of working RNs and shows newcomers how to become a travel nurse.
“When I first decided to find out [...]

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 [...]

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Executive Vice President and Nurse Alliance Chair Dian Palmer, RN, issued the following statement regarding the work being done by SEIU nurses and leaders across the country in anticipation of the health impacts of Hurricane Gustav:
“As Hurricane Gustav bears down on the Gulf Coast, leaders of the Nurse Alliance of [...]