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Editor’s Letter Nurses Rock! In honor of National Nurses Week, I just want to take a minute to acknowledge all the hard work that goes into nursing and let you know that “NURSES ROCK”! Pass this message on to a special nurse that you know. It is no secret that nurse’s workloads are frequently overlo...
Read more →There are many wonderful things that a career in travel nursing offers. However, there is a downside to travel nursing and it is important that nurses know the ups and downs before making the decision to become a travel nurse. Before discussing the pros and cons of travel nursing, let's take a look...
Read more →Nursing students learn how to help family members grieve but seldom learn how to deal with their own grief. Time spent on how nurses cope with patient death is scarce and mainly anecdotal. Studies suggest nurses should be prepared that their patients may die and how they manage this process is impor...
Read more →One of the next greatest challenges that the US health care system faces is the aging of the baby boomers. The year 2011 marks the year that the first baby boomer turns 65. Before 20 years are up there will be over 70 million people that are 65 or older. As people age, they usually need more healthc...
Read more →Go Red for Women on February 4th! National Wear Red Day was instituted by the American Heart Association in an effort to help save women's lives. Too many women die each year unaware that heart disease is their number one killer. One in three women die from heart disease which means that almost one...
Read more →On January 12, 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and took the lives of 230,000 people and injured more than 300,000. More than one million Haitians were left homeless. One year later, Haitians are still trying to recover. In the aftermath of this horrific quak...
Read more →In the next few years, we will look back at 2010 and remember it as the year that healthcare began to change. The issues in nursing have been just as important and profound. 2010 had the leaders in nursing fighting to ensure nurses’ involvement as healthcare goes through many changes. Following is a...
Read more →I am an RN in Virginia. I, too, have seen our LPNs being phased out. In fact, I believe our floor has the highest percentage of LPNs in the entire hospital. When I graduated nursing school in 2007 and began my career, I was trained by a seasoned RN. However, during the nights when I needed help or h...
Read more →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 nurses. This was particularly...
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 →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-airway-breathing. This change will apply to adu...
Read more →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 state insurance commissioners about new sch...
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