Why Memorize When You Can Check Your Phone? The New York Times has an article about how nursing school students are likely to reach for their smart phones when asked about a drug interaction. They don’t need to memorize this stuff anymore — they can just go ahead and look it up at a moment’s notice....
Read more →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 →Hospitals with EHR Found to Have Better Patient Outcomes Electronic Health Records are somewhat controversial — some people think they’re a great idea, some people really don’t. Evidence is starting to come in regarding whether they make a difference, and the news seems to be pretty good. Nurse.com...
Read more →Providers Will Benefit from Emphasis on Electronic Funds A new regulation went into effect January 1st, 2012, setting industry-wide standards for electronic funds transfers in healthcare, as required by the Affordable Care Act. It will reduce up to $4.5 billion over the next 10 years in administrati...
Read more →Nonprofit Nursing Homes Have Happier Staffers “The New Old Age,” a New York Times blog discusses a study that shows that staffers at non-profit nursing homes are happier than their counterparts at for-profit nursing homes. This is in keeping with many other studies that have shown that nonprofits do...
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 →Nurses Who Went on Strike in California Locked Out The California strike that was discussed here did in fact happen yesterday. Today, the nurses who participated in the strike were locked out by hospitals, in a continuing dispute over health care costs, sick leave, and staffing levels. Official numb...
Read more →Nurses Tend to Stick Close to Home A study has found that nurses tend to find work that is close to the nursing school that they graduated from. This means that areas without nursing schools — such as rural areas — tend to have a harder time finding nurses. And if there aren’t enough nurses to go ar...
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...
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