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News for Nurses
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A couple of items worth bringing to your attention:
Behavior Affects Patient Safety
JCAHO recently issued a Sentinel Alert calling for all JCAHO accredited institutions to take note of findings hat patient safety is being undermined by inappropriate and unprofessional behavior exhibited by health care professionals.
Nurses, physicians, pharmacists, therapists and support staff who demonstrate intimidating and disruptive […]
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Are You Registered Voter???
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I learned something very disturbing today at Healthcare United. Did you know that one in four health care workers is NOT registered to vote?!
There are over 10 million health care workers in the U.S. Twenty five percent of them are not registered to vote. That’s 2.5 million potential votes!!!
The shortage of nurses and physicians […]
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Safe Staffing Poll Results
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The American Nurses Association (ANA) has compiled the results form it’s Safe Staffing Saves Lives survey. The results are unfortunately not surprising ad nurses are encouraged to continue to contact their legislators to support the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2007.
Over 10,000 nurses took part in the Safe Staffing survey. Here are just a […]
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Skin in the Game (Book Review)
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I recently reviewed another great book for my site at Suite101.com called Skin in the Game by John Hammergren and Phil Harkins. The subtitle of the book, How Putting Yourself Today Will Revolutionize Health Care Tomorrow, gives you a window into the topic of the book.
This is a terrific book about the evolution of the […]
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More Nursing Scholarships for 2008… Apply NOW!
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Clinique cosmetics is offering nursing scholarships for the 2nd year in a row in their campaign to contribute to the future of healthcare. Clinique was created by a group of dermatologists who understand first hand the shortages the health care industry is facing as well as the high cost of health care education.
Scholarships for BSN […]
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Support Candidates who Support Nurses!
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The Paul Wellstone Mental Health & Addiction Act passed in the House of Representatives last week! Many thanks to all of you who contacted your Representatives!
Now, nurses need your help… there is still time to get signatures on the “Dear Colleagues” letter being circulated by Representatives Lois Capps (D-CA) and Steven LaTourette (R-OH) to encourage […]
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Michigan Funds Program to Help High School Students Prepare for Nursing School
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Here’s a perfect example of why nurses should pay attention to political issues. The state of Michigan is funding a program to better prepare high school students for nursing school. One of the reasons nursing students don’t succeed in nursing school is that they have difficulties with the math or reading.
This poor success rate is […]
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National Nurse Campaign
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To solve the nursing shortage crisis, it’s going to take a lot of thinking outside the box. One idea came from Terri Mills RN, MS, ANP, a nurse educator at Portland Community College in Oregon. In an op-ed column in the New York Times, Mills suggested the idea for a National Nurse. Over the past […]
