Category: Nursing

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – SILVER SPRING, MD – The U.S. will need to produce 1.1 million new registered nurses (RNs) by 2022 to fill newly created jobs and replace a legion of soon-to-be retirees.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHARLESTON, SC (July 21, 2014) – The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Nursing is one of only 14 schools of nursing nationwide to be among the first to receive a grant from a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) program to increase the number of nurses holding a PhD degree.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The nursing profession, with more than 3 million members, is the largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – TUCSON, Ariz. – A two-and-a-half year age difference is one of the few things that separate sisters Kim and Jill Krmpotic. They live together, work as registered nurses at the same Phoenix hospital and are both pursuing their Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)degrees online through theUniversity of Arizona College of Nursing.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – One-in-three patients in skilled nursing facilities suffered a medication error, infection or some other type of harm related to their treatment, according to a government report released today that underscores the widespread nature of the country’s patient harm problem.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – TUCSON, Ariz. – As a member of the Army Nurse Corps since 2001,Lt. Col. Leilani Siaki, PhD, FNP-BC, is continuing her family’s proud tradition of U.S. military service.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DES PLAINES, Ill., Feb. 4, 2014  — A qualitative study on assaults on emergency nurses sponsored by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) found a need to change the culture of acceptance prevalent among hospital administrators and law enforcement, as well as a need to better train nurses on signs of potential trouble.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing has revised its RN to BSN program that allows registered nurses to earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing in as little as nine months.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Dallas, TX – January 21, 2014 – Nurses Lounge, Inc,an online professional network for nurses and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MedCAREERS Group, Inc. announced today that Carmen Kosicek RN, MSN, author ofNurses Jobs and Money – A Guide to Advancing your Nursing Career and Salary’, will be a sponsor of the Nurses Lounge Student Career Center.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – SILVER SPRING, MD – The public continues to rate nurses as the most trusted profession, according to this year’s Gallup survey that ranks professions based on their honesty and ethical standards.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Dallas, TX – November 5, 2013 – Nurses Lounge, Inc,an online professional network for nurses (nurseslounge.com) and wholly-owned subsidiary of MedCAREERS Group, Inc. (“MCGI” or the “Company”) (OTCQB:MCGI), a development stage company, returned from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing fall meeting in Washington, DC with commitments from approximately 60 nursing schools and associations to join and utilize their network as a more efficient way to communicate news and information to students, alumni and broader nursing profession.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – TUCSON, Ariz. – Less than one year after launching a two-year, entirely online RN to MSN (Master of Science in Nursing) degree program for nurses with an associate degree, the University of Arizona College of Nursingannounces the addition of an accelerated 15-month online MSN program for nurses with a BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) degree.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2013  –The nursing profession remains overwhelmingly female, but the representation of men has increased as the demand for nurses has grown over the last several decades, according to a U.S. Census Bureau study released today.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – AURORA, Colo. – January 22, 2013 – As health care grows more complex, there’s no shortage of specialty areas where today’s ambitious nurses could focus. What is most important is how a nurse zeroes in on a preferred specialty that can help fulfill his or her career goals.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BRAINTREE, Mass., Jan. 3, 2013  — American Career Institute, a medical, dental and information technology focused career school announced that they are now offering a Nursing Aide Training program.  Currently, the program is available exclusively at the Braintree, Massachusetts location.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 3, 2013  — Unifying the voices of nurse practitioners (NPs) nationwide, The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) has officially launched, creating the largest professional membership organization in the country for NPs of all specialties. The new entity is the result of a merger on January 1, 2013 between The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and The American College of Nurse Practitioners.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – SILVER SPRING, MD — The public continues to rate registered nurses (RNs) as the most trusted profession according to this year’s Gallup survey that ranks professions based on their honesty and ethical standards.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – SILVER SPRING, MD – In a major advancement for registered nurses (RNs), a new Medicare rule calls for paying RNs for services intended to effectively manage patients’ transitions from hospitals to other settings and to prevent complications and conditions that cause expensive hospital re-admissions.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 12, 2012 — Whether they’re collecting fingernail scrapings, documenting ligature marks or gunshot wounds, or swabbing for potential DNA the forensic nurses’ first priority is always the health and safety of their patient.