The number of scholarships offered to enrolled nurses in NSW is to be doubled to more than 400, the NSW government has announced.Premier Morris Iemma said the scholarships would be offered to enrolled nurses across the state who are undertaking a Bachelor Of Nursing or Bachelor of Midwifery degree this year.The scholarships, worth up to […]

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More doctors. More nurses. More support workers. More therapists, more diagnostic technicians. More facilities. More money.Keeping up with the health-care demands of a growing population in northern Alberta remains a challenge for all three health regions that span the northern part of the province.But some progress is being made.The Northern Lights Health Region stretches across […]

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Nurses wearing trousers at the San Rafael clinic will see a 30 Euro deduction from their monthly wages.
Nurses in Cádiz in Spain have been told that they have to wear a skirt if they want to earn a full wage. Those at the San Rafael Clinic who choose to wear nurses trousers instead will lose […]

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Iowa’s nursing shortage is the focus of a roundtable discussion this afternoon in Iowa City, the first of five such public meetings statewide this week. Iowa Congressman Tom Latham is hosting the gatherings and says Iowa is dealing with an eight-percent shortage of nurses now, but it could grow into a 27% shortage if nothing […]

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A disgraced care home boss who stole almost £10,000 from vulnerable pensioners has been struck off.

Allyson Elaine Smith has been axed from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register after she stole from residents at Ashton Grange Care Home in Pallion, Sunderland.
The 39-year-old’s pilfering included taking more than £915 from one ailing woman shortly […]

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The vice-president of the Nursing and Midwifery Council is taking the organisation to an employment tribunal for racial discrimination.
Nursing Times understands Moi Ali submitted the claim, which also relates to discrimination on the basis of religious belief, to London Central Employment Tribunal earlier this month.
Ms Ali was formerly a lay member of the council, became […]

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Hundreds of registered nurses walked off the job at 7 a.m. today to begin a 10-day strike against Bay Area hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health. This is the third such walk-out in less than six months and it will be by far the longest. Similar strikes in October and December lasted two days each. The […]

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Facing another summer of understaffed, overworked nurses and challenges scheduling holidays, Seaforth Community Hospital will be erecting an electronic sign on Highway 8 trying to recruit more RNs.
“We’re going to put up one of those backlit signs saying, ‘If you’re a nurse, come on down,’” said Andrew Williams, CEO of the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance […]

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Medical workers in Algeria launched a union-mandated three-day strike on March 16th to protest a new civil service law governing their profession and compensation. The strike went ahead despite an order issued the same day by the administrative chamber of the Court of Algiers to block the action. Lounes Ghashi, Secretary-General of the Algerian Medical […]

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                                                                                                                                                                     The United States health care system needs to brace for a severe shortage of nurses, according to findings by Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Douglas Staiger, Ph.D., from Dartmouth University, and David Auerbach, Ph.D., of the Congressional Budget Office.“It is a matter of supply and […]

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