The forced closure of a ward at Portiuncula Hospital due to the HSE recruitment freeze is yet another indictment of Health Minister Mary Harney, says Ballinasloe’s Sinn Féin Councillor Jason Devlin. The 28-bed gynaecology ward at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, is due to close this Sunday December 23 due to staff shortages. The HSE West confirmed […]

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Western Governors University (www.wgu.edu) has created a new bachelor’s degree program designed to help working nurses make career progress in the most accessible and cost-effective way — online, through WGU’s competency-based model. The new online nursing degree, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, comes at a time when the nation’s nursing shortage is dire and the […]

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Taking action to address the acute shortage of nurses in the state, the University of North Carolina Wilmington School of Nursing is accepting and graduating more nursing students, including its first class of prelicensure nurses to graduate in December.On Dec. 15, 31 new nurses will leave UNC Wilmington to fill critically needed nursing positions. Twenty-five […]

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At a symposium sponsored by the Ventura County Community Foundation and CSU Channel Islands in mid-November, participants explored some of the complexities surrounding the nursing shortage. In California, we are currently preparing only half the number of nurses we need. The attrition rate averages between 10 percent and 25 percent for the students in programs […]

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LONGER waiting lists will become a reality for Tailem Bend residents when two of the town’s three doctors are set to leave in February. It has been reported that the town will be left to operate with one general practitioner (GP) to service the population of 1457, plus surrounding areas. This doctor to patient ratio […]

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The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses is shocked over the Essential Services Legislation tabled yesterday.   According to the union, nurses provide an essential service every day and the health regions have been unable to manage day to day operations which have resulted in a shortage of registered nurses. SUN President Rosalee Longmoore says since nurses […]

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POLITICIANS have known for a long time that emergency departments in the state’s main public hospitals are in crisis: chronically overloaded and operating beyond safe capacity, with trolleys spilling into corridors as a result of bed shortages in wards.Clinicians had been warning the Health Department for about 10 years. But bureaucrats chose to ignore input […]

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Nurses around the nation are getting seriously ill from constant exposure to hazardous chemicals and are forced to quit, according to a new report.Take, for example, Paxson Barker of Baltimore. Barker, a registered nurse for 35 years, had to shift to a desk job after she contracted adult onset asthma. She became ill after working […]

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A new mothers’ advocacy group says a midwife shortage is posing a serious danger to the health of mothers and new-born babies over the festive period. Maternity Services Consumer Council co-ordinator, Lynda Williams, says she has been getting calls from around the country about stretched services. She says she has seen serious gaps in the holiday […]

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A district health board may be about to offer a cash bonus to midwives equal to a 20% pay rise.Counties Manukau DHB is set to offer $11,000 to new and existing midwifery staff. Chief medical officer Don Mackie denies trying to poach staff, but says the cash is necessary to address a shortfall of 40 full-time […]

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