The Duke Endowment is supporting the effort with a half-million-dollar grant that will sustain it through 2010. The center will engage faculty from our bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs alike, supported by an operations director, an instructional designer and an experienced clinical instructor. Core faculty leaders include Ruth Anderson, Chip Bailey, Kirsten Corazzini, Pamela Edwards [...]

As America turns its attention to New Orleans on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), has put out a call nationwide for RN volunteers in the event that tropical storm Gustav overwhelms local healthcare services, RNRN announced today.
“RNRN has been in communication with the community free clinics that arose [...]

This article provides an overview of nursing careers and the requirements to become a parish nurse. This article will outline a parish nurse’s job duties, salary levels, and employment prospects, as well as discuss the career’s necessary skills, training, educational requirements, and licensing requirements.
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The parish nurse is a nursing professional, typically a registered nurse [...]

Concept Media, a leading producer and distributor of award winning healthcare education media, has granted a charitable media donation worth $27K to Medical Missions for Children (MMC), a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the medical needs of catastrophically ill children in underserved U.S. and international communities.
Concept Media is providing MMC with 30 video-based healthcare educational [...]

No matter where you live or what your nursing schedule, you can quickly improve your skills and reach greater success by earning your BSN online from Jacksonville University, a real world university with a tradition of excellence dating back to its beginning in 1934. Offering one of the most popular online RN to BSN degree [...]

In 2007, the state joined just two others — Alabama and Mississippi — where 30 percent or more of adults are obese, according to new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Experts point to a collection of personal and public choices as driving the rise of obesity in Southern states such as Tennessee, [...]

Nearly three years ago, registered nurse Barbara Roles, 69, volunteered a month of service in Baton Rouge, La. to help treat 100 to 200 patients a day after Hurricane Katrina.
“You found out a lot about yourself and your strengths,” said Roles, recently named “Volunteer of the Year” for the Lower Shore Chapter of the American [...]

Cardiology is the medical specialty which involves the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, conditions, or defects of the heart and circulatory system. Cardiology, or cardiovascular medicine, is a rapidly growing field, as technological and pharmaceutical advancements continue to be developed by scientists and researchers.
If you’re interested in the field of cardiology, and finding cardiology jobs [...]

Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Take Care Nurse Practitioner Serena Stutzman, an Olathe, Kan. resident, to the Kansas State Board of Nursing (KSBN) this month. The KSBN oversees the education, licensing and practice of more than 40,000 registered and licensed nurses in Kansas. The Board, made up of 11 members including six registered nurses, sets and [...]

Rising fuel prices are causing financial strain for some home health care workers and the industry is considering replacing some services in rural areas with remote monitoring systems, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports. Gasoline prices have increased by more than 80% in the past 18 months, and experts say it is “a particularly knotty problem for [...]