Where Nursing Needs No Language: Stanford Hospital Nurses Volunteer Abroad |
| Before Stanford Hospital & Clinics nurse Julie Kersey went off on her first trip overseas to volunteer her skills, she received some very practical advice from close at hand, from an old hand at such missions - "You're going to see a sea of people and when you're done there's still going to be a sea of people," Kersey's unit manager Cecilia Cadet told her. "Be prepared: You can't fix the whole world yourself. |
Resurgent Health And Medical Honors Nurses During National Nurses Week |
| Resurgent Health and Medical, a leader in automated handwashing and sanitizing technology, announced today the recognition of the 2.9 million Registered Nurses working in the United States. Resurgent has worked aggressively with hospital and medical facilities to promote and encourage hand hygiene and infection control. "We're committed to assisting and helping the nurses that work so hard on a daily basis to care for all the patients throughout the United States. |
Economic Downturn Prompts Many Nurses To Work More Shifts, Helps Address Nursing Shortage |
| The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined how the "ailing economy" has prompted many nurses to work additional shifts, delay retirement or return to the work force from retirement -- all of which have helped "ease the nursing shortage."The nursing shortage began in the 1990s as older nurses began to retire and fewer younger nurses replaced them, and the shortage became worse as aging baby boomers increased demand for health care. By 2001, the U.S. |
It's Official: Federal Labor Board Certifies NNOC Texas To Represent RNs At Houston Hospital |
| The National Labor Relations Board formally certified NNOC Texas, the Texas affiliate of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, as the exclusive collective bargaining representative of registered nurses at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital in Houston. |
Nurse Attitudes And Care For Patients With Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
| Sexually Transmitted DiseaseA Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD), also known as Venerealdisease (VD), is a disease that is transmitted primarily bysexual contact including vaginal intercourse, oral sex and analsex. STDs are also transmitted via the needles, birth canal andbreast feeding. The infection may be bacterial, fungal, viral orprotozoan. |
ICU Nursing-Nurse Interventions In Acute Exacerbations Of COPD |
| ICU NursingIntensive Care Unit (ICU) nursing is commonly referred to ascritical care nursing. Critical care nursing deals specifically withthe human response to life threatening conditions. Critical carenursing is challenging due to the life-threatening healthsituations in the ICU. Critical care nurses are often in highstresssituations which demands complex assessments, highintensitytherapies and interventions and continuous vigilance. |
Forty-One Percent Of Registered Nurses Find Generics Are Less Effective Than Name Brand Drugs - American Society Of Registered Nurses |
| In a national online survey conducted by the American Society of Registered Nurses (ASRN.org), 41% of the 781 Registered Nurses surveyed on April 28 reported that generic drugs are less effective than their equivalent brand-name counterparts. For most people, most of the time, a generic drug makes economic and medical sense. |
