According to Iowa medical officials, there’s a nursing shortage that is quickly turning into a crisis. Colleges are struggling to graduate enough nurses to replace an aging work force. Officials say faculty shortages and low wages contribute to the problem. Iowa Department of Health estimates that Iowa now has 8 percent fewer nurses than is […]

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Dr. Elizabeth Allemann states that the state of Missouri is endangering the health and well-being of pregnant women and their children, especially moms who choose home birth.  Some media reports have recently “romanticized” the labor and birth process in private homes with a YouTube video of some home birth advocates. Women certainly have a right […]

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MANY PUBLIC care facilities will need to be upgraded or redeveloped in order to comply with new regulations for nursing homes to be published shortly.The standards, approved yesterday by the Health Information Quality Authority, will cover public facilities for older people for the first time.They are understood to set out more than 30 requirements regarding […]

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Tafford Uniforms, a leading supplier of nursing scrubs, shoes, and medical accessories, today announced that two students have been awarded the Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship. Misty Blue Foster and Solande Louis are the third and fourth recipients of the Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship, which was first awarded in June 2007.  The Tafford Uniforms Scholarship Committee […]

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The project is part of a new partnership between CapitalCare, NorQuest College, Capital Health and the University of Alberta to create the Institute for Continuing Care, Education and Research.
“We get the real opportunity to have one-on-one contact and the closeness with the residents,” said Rayner, 18, who now sees Boswell, 49, and other residents while […]

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Student nurses on campus are practicing what they’ve learned in books on lifelike mannequins that cost $3,000 each.
Those “dolls,” as their are fondly called by instructors and students, can do some pretty amazing things.
Sure, one of them can have a pretend heart attack. A nearby monitor spits out paper with his heart rhythms recorded on […]

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A bill in the state senate would allow California State universities to offer doctoral nursing programs. Supporters say the effort would help alleviate a shortage of nursing instructors. KPBS Reporter Kenny Goldberg has more.
The number of nursing school graduates in the state has increased by nearly 70 percent over the last five years. But experts […]

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A nursing shortage in Iowa is quickly turning into a crisis as colleges struggle to graduate enough nurses to replace an aging work force, medical officials said.
The industry is blaming the shortage on several issues, including a lack of faculty at nursing programs and relatively low wages.
The issue has become a focus for U.S. Rep. […]

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The Labour Court has ruled that the Health Service Executive (HSE) breached the terms of the national agreement, Towards 2016, in the manner it introduced a recruitment freeze last year.
The HSE introduced the recruitment ban last September as part of its “Financial Break-Even Plan” to deal with a €200 million financial overrun. The freeze was […]

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NURSES who set up a video link so patients in Pwllheli could be diagnosed by consultants in Ysbyty Gwynedd have been honoured at a conference in Bangor.
The team from Ysbyty Bryn Beryl developed a number of initiatives to help reduce waiting times, cut patients’ journey times and speed up diagnosis.
Their new telemedicine facility allows clinical […]

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