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About five years ago, when she was in her early fifties, my friend Nancy made a decision that surprised her family and friends. She was going back to school. And she was going to become a nurse. “A nurse?” more than a few people responded. “Why would you want to go through all that schooling? Start...
Read more →Nursing can be an extremely rewarding and enriching career path. It can also be exhausting and overwhelming. What if you could start fresh every thirteen weeks, gaining new and valuable experiences, meeting new people in new places, earning excellent pay and benefits? You can. By taking a few minute...
Read more →In a recent edition of the monthly newsletter I receive in the mail from my family’s HMO, a letter from a reader asked, “Do we even have school nurses anymore? And, what do they do?” School nursing has evolved from the temperature-taking, bandage-applying friendly face we remember from our childhood...
Read more →While travel nurses may love the freedom, flexibility, and pay of their job, it can still be at times a very stressful experience. You’re dealing with new work situations far from your family and friends and far from your gym. What’s a travel nurse to do to beat stress while on the job? Yoga is a gr...
Read more →Working on the frontlines of healthcare everyday, no one knows better than nurses how greatly physical fitness can impact women’s health and wellbeing. Which is why an upcoming program from the US Department of Health and Human Services is a welcome way for nurses everywhere to promote physical acti...
Read more →Plentiful nursing jobs in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan are soon going to be filled by unlikely candidates if local health care professionals get their way. In March, a delegation of health care professionals and hospital administrators are traveling to the Philippines in hopes of recruiting...
Read more →Travel nursing is becoming extremely popular not only because nurses love the freedom, flexibility, and higher pay that travel nursing offers, but also because it’s a convenient choice for anyone needing in-home care. Once thought of only as an option for the ultra rich, private, or travel nurses ar...
Read more →Editor’s Corner Hi everyone! Another year has gone by with all its challenges and blessings. I hope all of you had a good holiday break and have all your batteries charged for the bright new year ahead. In this issue, in addition to interesting news items from the world of nursing, we also bring you...
Read more →808 million people travelled internationally in 2005. Americans made almost 62 million trips abroad in 2004, which translates to about 1 in every 5 U.S. residents. With the increasing number of people travelling internationally, the risk of diseases carried across national boundaries also increases....
Read more →But some states move forward to lessen the burden It is not exactly a stop-the-presses kind of news story because it’s not exactly new. But it continues to be a serious enough issue to warrant frequent coverage: the nurse shortage continues, threatening safe and effective delivery of health services...
Read more →All nurses are precious and they work hard to save lives. Yet, some perhaps work even harder because they work not within the safe confines of a hospital in urban America but out there in the battlefield, braving not only fatigue and despair but bombs and bullets as well. We are talking about the Ar...
Read more →The results of a new national study should come as no surprise to any seasoned nurse or healthcare worker. The study found out that a great majority of the medication errors arise from mislabelling of the safety syringes used in hospitals and medical facilities. The study which surveyed 1,039 nurses...
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