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Thanks To a Navy Nurse When U.S. Navy and other military personnel are deployed overseas they can thank Immunization Nurse Specialist Stephen W. Dolak, BSN, BSEd, RN for protecting them against vaccine-preventable diseases. His initiatives have dramatically improved the immunization program at the U...
Read more →Editor’s Letter Happy Independence Day! I’m sure that many of you celebrated the fourth of July with cookouts and fireworks. The signing of the Declaration of Independence signaled the beginning of freedom for the United States of America. Without that document in 1776, freedom and this country woul...
Read more →National Survey of Nurses The Nurse Advocate Organization, NAO, conducted a national feedback survey of nurses and the results are interesting. The NAO’s primary mission is to support nurses in the work environment and act as an advocate with administrations. The survey had a total of ten questions...
Read more →The Workload is The Striking Point The union that represents registered nurses at both Tufts Medical Center in Boston and Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester notified both health care providers that it plans a one-day strike on May 6th to emphasize the nurses’ demand for higher staffing levels. The...
Read more →Working as a Visiting Nurse in Saudi Arabia By Christina Bravata As a nurse, you know the skills you have acquired throughout your career are crucial to the healing process of your patients. But do you realize just how important they are? A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine conclud...
Read more →Nurses Strike Averted at Tufts Negotiators for the Tufts Medical Center and the Massachusetts Nurses Association agreed on an 18-month contract extension, only hours before 1,100 registered nurses were set to walk off their jobs at the Boston teaching hospital. The tentative deal was reached after 1...
Read more →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 →Travel Nursing 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...
Read more →Good Grief: How are Nurses Coping with Patient Deaths? 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 pat...
Read more →The Next Great Challenge: Baby Boomers 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 peo...
Read more →Go Red! 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 alm...
Read more →Haiti: One Year Later 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...
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