A study from France has found that a shortage of beds in hospital intensive care units may mean that more patients die. An article from Reuters reports on the study, which focused on 10 hospitals in western France. The researchers found that almost 15% of the 1,332 patients who had been referred to the hospitals’ […]
There are so many challenging decisions in nursing, and not all of the ethical issues are clear-cut. A nurse ethicist can be a resource in those difficult situations. Nurse.com has an interview with a nurse ethicist who explains this little-known specialty. Lucia D. Wocial, RN, PhD, is a nurse ethicist with Indiana University Health, plus […]
The US News and World Report has published a list of the top ten jobs of 2012. At the very top of the list — above jobs such as web developer and pharmacist — is “Registered Nurse.” All ten of the best jobs of 2012 fall one of two broad categories, either healthcare or computers. […]
The face of the nursing profession is changing as as healthcare morphs into a new paradigm of care for the twenty-first century. The number of nursing positions in hospitals has declined and there has been a shift to more community-based positions that define new models of nursing care. In order to prepare new nurses for […]
People rarely want to leave home to enter a nursing home, even if their level of care requires it. A new emphasis on home health care is allowing more people to stay at home for longer, while also saving money, according to this article in the New York Times. In this new model of home […]
Registered Nurses are required to obtain Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in order to renew their licenses. Many nurses are going beyond the bare minimum and seeking certification in various specialties, enabling to put more letters after that “RN.” The process of receiving certification varies across specialties, but generally about two years of clinical experience in […]
An article in the Sacramento Bee examines the role that nurses have in the political sphere in California, especially in terms of their ability to use strikes effectively. There have been a series of strikes or threatened strikes recently, such as this one on January 31st, 2012. Rose Ann DeMoro is always ready for another […]
Nurses in Montgomery, Alabama rallied in support of a bill that increase the number of teaching scholarships available. Over 3500 nursing students were turned away because there was not room for them in class in the past year. The nurses at the rally said that one of the biggest problems Alabamians face is lack of […]
The Texas Health Care Association said that Texas’s skilled nursing facility sector will continue to be a significant source of new jobs throughout the state in an article in the Bradenton Herald. They cited a new report from the U.S. Department of Labor which projects that the health care and social assistance sector will gain […]
As patients move from the hospital to home hospice, the staff nurse suddenly is faced with more than simply one patient. Immediate and extended family members are suddenly in great need of reassurance, teaching and sometimes, mediation. With the goal of helping the patient transition as smoothly as possible with all the necessary support in […]
