News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
Editor’s Letter Happy New Year to everyone! I always like this time of year because it is a time for renewal, a chance to do it over again and maybe get it right this time. The health club I belong to always has an overflow of members during the month of January as everyone strives for their resolut...
Read more →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 numbers on how many nurses went on strike on Thursday d...
Read more →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% fewer nurses than would a...
Read more →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 large number of aging Nebraskans, and...
Read more →A study has shown that home nursing visits for post-delivery well-baby check-ups are not only as effective as office-based care, they actually have a few extra benefits as well, from cost-effectiveness to the comfort level of the mothers: “Generally, moms and babies are discharged from the hospital...
Read more →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 environment resulted in a nearly five times greate...
Read more →Nursing’s reputation as being a recession-proof profession is taking a bit of a hit as more people enter nursing schools and then more graduates vie for the available jobs. Even so, nursing school graduates are able to find jobs within a relatively short time. An article about Orange County, Califor...
Read more →Lots of high tech healthcare jobs are coming, if the estimated 9,000 new positions in informatics materialize in the next five years. According to projections of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, an estimated 50,000 new IT jobs will open up within five years....
Read more →It’s a stressful job, but it’s also an important one. Nurses in a program called SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) specialize in dealing with rape victims. Nurses such as Barbra Chikowore know how to put these patients at ease, from introducing herself by her first name to taking a seat on the fl...
Read more →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 with both patient and nurse injuries, suggesting pat...
Read more →Negative emotions regarding your own personal life can affect your compassion for, and care of, your patients. As a nurse, part of your job is to heal with yourself. Your attitude, your feelings, and your touch can all directly impact the health of your patient. So how, when conflicts arise in your...
Read more →Nurses earning their doctorates are causing headaches for some in the medical profession. After years of study and successful defense of their dissertation, nurses who want to be called ‘doctor’ are getting push back from physicians who believe that title belongs only to someone who has earned a med...
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