Tuesday, December 04, 2007
In the most basic sense, the current global nursing shortage is simply a widespread and dangerous lack of skilled nurses who are needed to care for individual patients and the population as a whole. The work of the world’s estimated 12 million nurses is not well understood, even by educated members of society. But nursing is a distinct scientific field and autonomous profession whose skilled practitioners save lives and improve patient outcomes every day in a wide variety of settings.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
In a recent report by the AACN, 42,866 qualified applicants were rejected in 2006 from baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs because of not having enough “faculty, clinical sites, classroom space, clinical preceptors and budget constraints.” Seventy-one percent of the nursing schools that responded to the survey indicated that limited space in their nursing department was because of lack of faculty.
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Friday, November 09, 2007
Regardless of where they go, young health-care professionals have an edge on those in other jobs because of the high demand. Demand is so high, in fact, engineers, teachers, retired military members and others from unrelated fields are entering training in the health-care industry.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Texas handed out nearly $7 million to state nursing schools to help hire faculty and to increase the number of nurse graduates, but only two out of five schools in San Antonio were able to collect. This seems to be the pattern in schools across the US.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
The shortage of registered nurses in the United States could be lessened by adopting tactics used successfully in other segments of the economy, such as incentives to keep experienced nurses on the job and attract those who have left the profession, according to a University at Buffalo study.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The heavy rain was probably appropriate, given the mood of the demonstrators. Nurses in Bonavista, led by their union president Debbie Forward, demonstrated outside Bonavista Hospital and Golden Heights Manor last Tuesday. They also took their demonstration to two busy intersections in town, spreading their message of ‘more nurses needed’ to the general public.
Their gathering was part of a provincial rally, aimed to focus attention on what nurses are calling a “crisis.” The say there’s a severe shortage of nursing staff across the province and government needs to do something about it.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Even though labor experts say that nursing is one of the up-and-coming careers in the next 10 years, this country still faces a nursing shortage.
Nurses want the public to know that their job is more then just taking temperatures and changing linens. that’s because many colleges and universities are struggling to expand enrollment.
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Thursday, October 04, 2007
A Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study on general, orthopedic and vascular surgery patients at hospitals implied “the odds of patient mortality increased 7 percent for every additional patient in the average nurse’s workload in the hospital.
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Monday, October 01, 2007
Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), the eighth largest hospital system in the nation, announced today that it is launching its International Healthcare Ministry with a medical mission to Esquipulas, Guatemala. The mission will provide medical services and supplies to residents, training to local clinical staff, and preventive health education for the community.
More than one-half of the world’s population (2.6 billion people) live below the internationally defined poverty line of less than U.S. $2 a day. CHW established the International Healthcare Ministry in January 2006 to help improve the global quality of life by supporting CHW’s sponsoring congregations’ missions in developing countries.
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
As the nursing shortage continues, increased tension is added to an already stressful profession. Adding to this stress is the seemingly endless need for involvement in hospital politics. People who chose nursing as their career because they wanted to give direct patient care and experience the rewards in doing so become frustrated. Facilities frequently run short-staffed, requiring nurses to work mandatory weekends, holidays, or “on-call.” Nurses are forced to use vacation or personal leave to compensate for taking low census days at the hospital. One answer to this dilemma can be found in agency nursing.
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