Are LPNs being phased out? Licensed practical nursing (in some states called licensed vocational nursing) has a noble history dating back to the early 1940’s. This category of nursing began as a way to get licensed caregivers into the workforce in a shorter period of time than it took registered nur...
Read more →In the days since a massive earthquake in Haiti on January 12 left tens of thousands dead and thousands more wounded, tens of thousands of U.S. Nurses have offered their assistance. If Haitians are ever going to recover from this devastation, they are going to need nurses, and lots of them. Haiti's...
Read more →American Heart Association CPR Guidelines The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued some revised guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for both lay and professional rescuers. The recommended sequence of CPR steps is changing from airway-breathing-compressions to compressions-airwa...
Read more →Scams: The Side Effect of Health Reform Health insurance scams are on the rise as criminals quickly take advantage of consumers’ confusion about how the new health care law changes their insurance coverage. Earlier this year, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warned sta...
Read more →Jobs or No Jobs Despite a widely held belief that nursing is a “recession-proof” profession, new graduates in some areas of the country report difficulties finding a job. Surveys by the National Student Nurses Association of 2009 and 2010 new graduates show that more than 40% of nurses that responde...
Read more →Prescription Drug Abuse Growing Problem Among Teens Prescription drug abuse is the nation’s fastest growing drug problem and our teenagers are right in the middle of it. The government reports that more than three million teens have abused prescription drugs. The majority of the teens are getting th...
Read more →Nurses Resource Guide Nurses have one of the most challenging, admirable jobs on the planet. Not only must they meet the changing demands of the workplace every day of the week, but they must also meet the demands of our ever-changing technologies and scientific discoveries by earning continuing edu...
Read more →Attitudes Toward Male Nurses Decades ago there was a bias towards male nurses but does that still exist today? Many male and female nurses say that although they have encountered or heard about gender discrimination against men, they believe it is the fault of a few individuals rather than a pervasi...
Read more →Men in Nursing Today there are 2.1 million registered nurses in the United States and only 5.4% of them are male. Men also make up only 13% of all new nursing students, according to MinorityNurse.com. Obviously these statistics point to a female dominant field, yet history reveals a different story....
Read more →Update On Haiti and The Aftermath Did you know….? It has been a little over four months since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti that left hundreds of thousands in need of care. Nurses have played a pivotal role in the care and rebuilding of some many lives. Scott Plantz, MD, the publisher of Nursin...
Read more →Nurses Aim to Reduce Readmissions Keeping patients with multiple chronic conditions out of the hospital has always been a challenge for healthcare providers, but an increasing awareness of why patients return combined with a push to reduce healthcare costs, has put hospital readmission rates under t...
Read more →National Nurses Week Facts Did you know….? There are nearly 3.1 million registered nurses in the United States and 2.4 million of them are actively employed. The American Nurses Association was founded in 1896. Isabel Adams Hampton Robb was the first president of the American Nurses Association. Acc...
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