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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 →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 →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...
Read more →Study: Well-Baby Visits At Home are Safe, Effective 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: “Generall...
Read more →Work Environment Trumps Staffing Levels for Nurses 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...
Read more →Graduates Need to Work to Find Jobs, But Jobs are Out There 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 re...
Read more →9,000 Job Openings for Nursing Informatics 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 n...
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