Helping Foreign Nurses Receive Certification Quickly An organization is helping foreign nurses get certification quickly so they can begin to practice in Canada. The organization, called the CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses, has been around for about a decade. Even nurses who have had...
Read more →Ambulatory Care Nurse Specialty When asked what an ambulatory care nurse does, many nurses aren’t aware that such a specialty exists. What may be labeled as simply a nurse that used to work in a hospital, but who left to work in a doctor’s office, is an actual specialty in nursing practice. Ambulato...
Read more →Keeping Nurse Labor Costs Down This article in Health Leaders Media has an interesting perspective from hospitals regarding controlling nurse labor costs. It lays out a three-pronged approach to reduce personnel costs for nurses; a new approach to nurse overtime, use of supplemental labor such as fr...
Read more →Goodbye to The Nursing Shortage? When researchers took a look at the number of new students entering nursing school, they were pleasantly surprised to learn that the nursing shortage may not be as bad as they once predicted it would be when the baby boomer nurses begin to retire or leave the profess...
Read more →A Nursing Resurgence A study published in June of 2000 in the Journal of the American Medical Association painted a pretty bleak picture of the future of nursing. Of particular concern was whether there would be enough nurses to go around by the year 2020. They projected that there would be 20% fewe...
Read more →Employee Health Initiatives Sponsored by Hospitals Many hospitals are moving towards a policy of “walk the talk” when it comes to the health of their employees. Some will no longer hire smokers, and prospective employees can expect to be tested for tobacco products at the first interview with a mout...
Read more →This Nursing Shortage is Different Nebraska is concerned about the nursing shortage, and especially the fact that is likely to worsen over the next decade. Juliann Sebastian, dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, says that this shortage is different because of the lar...
Read more →Work Environment Trumps Staffing Levels for Nurses A survey has found that one way to improve patient care is to improve the work environment for nurses. Staffing levels are also important, but this survey indicated that even just a single incremental increase in how nurses rated their physical work...
Read more →Nursing Positions Remain Vacant The Cook County Health and Hospitals system in Illinois has numerous vacant positions — estimates range from 800 to 1415 — but even in this period of high unemployment, the positions remain unfilled. The New York Times examined why that is: According to Marisa Kollias...
Read more →Study: When Nurses are Safer, Patients are Safer Making the workplace better for nurses turns out to not only benefit them, but their patients as well. United Press International reports: Dr. Jennifer Taylor of the Drexel University School of Public Health found the safety climate was associated wit...
Read more →A Nurse Agency Can Be a Valuable Resource To launch an ultimately successful job search, you will need to make use of every available resource, including the use of a nurse agency. Listed below are the top seven ways recruiters can provide an added boost to your job search. Chance to Apply for Non-A...
Read more →Debt Default Could Impact Health Care Congress is negotiating trillions of dollars in budget cuts as a condition for authorizing a raise in the debt ceiling. The deadline for the raise is August 2nd and, according to the Treasury Department, if the raise is not approved, the U.S. will not be able to...
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