Registered Nurse is Best Job of 2012 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 healthc...
Read more →New Nursing Education Recommendations Image courtesy of University of Salford via Flickr 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 shi...
Read more →A Shift to Home Care from Nursing Homes 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....
Read more →Nurses in California Have Considerable Political Influence 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, s...
Read more →Nurses Rally In Montgomery For Scholarship Bill © John Kropewnicki – Fotolia.com 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 pas...
Read more →Major Growth in Health Care Jobs Expected 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 whi...
Read more →Transitioning Patients and Family from Hospital to Home Hospice 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....
Read more →Registered Nurses Top List Of Fastest-Growing Jobs An article in the Las Cruces Sun-News notes that a report released recently by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that now through 2020 should be a good time for people in the health care field. In the list of jobs that should show growth duri...
Read more →Caps On Mandatory Nursing Overtime Effective A new study that is part of the RN Work Project has shown that state-mandated caps on mandatory nursing overtime has a positive effect on patient safety. The laws effectively reduce overtime hours, which have been shown to reduce fatigue and the problems...
Read more →Kaiser Workers Stage a 24-hour Walkout in California A major strike took place in California yesterday, one of the largest in the history of Kaiser hospitals in the state. A total of about 22,000 people including about 4,000 mental and optical health care workers at Kaiser hospitals, plus thousands...
Read more →No Punishment, More Medical Error Reporting Although the number of medical errors probably aren’t actually increasing, the number of reported errors has risen. In the past, clinicians, including nurses, could face an immediate suspension or firing for a medical error. After a 1999 study in which the...
Read more →Flex Time Becomes More Common As Nursing Shortage Eases In Dayton, Ohio, the nursing shortage has evaporated — at least for the time being. One hospital in Dayton recently has been telling nurses to stay home rather than come in for scheduled shifts. Some of the nurses at this hospital lost up to a...
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