Today Lippincott Williams & Wilkins will launch Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills, an Internet-based point-of-care tool that offers evidence-based clinical reference and training for nurses and unprecedented support for hospitals seeking American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) MagnetTM accreditation. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business […]

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“The bottom line is that there is a critical need for nurses, and the state’s programs are not able to meet the need,” declares Liz Jacobs, spokeswoman for the California Nurses Association.  Donna Fox, a registered nurse and CNA regulatory policy specialist, echoes her concern. “A recent survey found that 17,000 qualified nursing-school applications were […]

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 The University of Iowa hopes limiting the number of undergraduate nursing degrees will help ease the country’s nursing shortage. At the College of Nursing they say there are two shortages: actual nurses and people to teach and administer nursing classes. The dean says more teachers can create more nurses.
Most hospitals deal with the nursing shortage. […]

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The province’s large number of nursing vacancies has patient safety at stake, says the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association. “We are quite concerned because historically, this province used to have almost 9,000 nurses and now we are down to 8,800 nurses,” said Donna Brunskill, executive director of SRNA. “These registered nurses are working a significant amount […]

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Hospital beds of seriously ill Muslim patients are to be turned to face Mecca as part of changes aimed at helping patients uphold their Islamic faith.
Dewsbury District Hospital in West Yorkshire will also provide Halal meals and make changes to shower facilities. Staff at the hospital will take part in training sessions to teach […]

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Saowalak Chalk (37), from Bangkok, will graduate with a BA in Adult Nursing at 10.30am on Friday 7 December and will be the first Thai national to graduate from RGU’s School of Nursing and Midwifery. In Thailand Saowalak managed both an office and then a restaurant before moving to Aberdeen with her husband fourteen years […]

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The Central Regional Director of Nursing Services, Bertha Boakye-Agyeman has reminded nurses of the highly important role they play in the country and advised them to take their calling seriously in order to save lives. At the matriculation of first year students of the Nurses and Midwives Training College in Cape Coast, she said some […]

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Union leaders are pushing for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to ditch proposed changes to the way specialist community public health nurses are registered.  Unite/CPHVA has expressed ‘deep concern’ at the NMC’s ‘failure to consult’ over plans it says would revoke a two-year agreement on the registration mechanism, and could be part of a […]

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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) today released preliminary survey data that show that enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs increased by 4.98 percent from 2006 to 2007. Though this marks the seventh consecutive year of enrollment growth, the rate at which nursing schools have been able to increase student capacity has declined […]

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A New York Times editorial by Teri Mills, RN, MS, ANP, CNE, that called for a national nurse position, resonated with the public, sparked a federal bill, and galvanized opposition from established nursing organizations.
All of this has led the Oregon nurse educator to modify her original proposal to one that would beef up existing public […]

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