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Nurses Object To Sutter's Plan For Closing San Leandro Hospital And Downsizing Eden
Categorie : NursingThe California Nurses Association filed formal objections with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors today, challenging the efforts of Sutter Health to close San Leandro Hospital and significantly downsize its sister facility Eden Medical Center. RNs say that this plan is "a significant loss of ...
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Wed May 2009
International Midwives' Day - The World Needs Midwives Now More Than Ever
Categorie : NursingThe Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) celebrated International Midwives' Day (IMD) this year by acknowledging the important role midwives play in improving maternal health in Australia and throughout the world. Ged Kearney, ANF Federal Secretary, said that International Midwives Day focuses atte ...
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Insurance "Concession" To Stop Charging Women More Doesn't Go Far Enough
Categorie : NursingThe nation's largest organization of registered nurses said the conditional offer by the insurance industry to stop charging women more for health coverage does not go nearly far enough. "It is long past time for the insurance industry to stop holding any American's health hostage based on gender, ...
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The Risks Of Vaccine Refusal Should Be Highlighted By Health-Care Providers
Categorie : NursingPhysicians and nurses need to explain the risks of vaccine refusal while respectfully listening to parents' concerns, a special article in the May 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine urges. Lead author Saad B. ...
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Chesley's Hypertensive Disorders In Pregnancy
Categorie : NursingChesley's Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy, remains one of the beacons to guide this field, recognized for its uniqueness and utility and is now in its Third Edition. Hypertensive disorders remain one the major causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and death. It is also a leading cause of p ...
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Nurses Expected To Assess Mothers With Mental Health Issues Despite Lack Of Guidance And Formal Training
Categorie : NursingResearchers have raised serious concerns about the lack of guidance and training provided for nurses involved in assessing the parenting capacity of mothers with serious mental illnesses. Writing in the May issue of the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, the team have high ...
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RN 'Super Union' Takes Next Step In Building Strong National Voice For Nurses With Focus On Organizing
Categorie : NursingThree influential nurses' organizations late last week set in motion a process for building what some are already calling an RN "super union" with a 150,000 member united organization that will become the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in U.S. history. ...
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NHS Must Recruit Enough Doctors And Nurses To Look After Patients, Says British Medical Association
Categorie : NursingResponding to the two government reports released recently on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, the BMA's Chairman of Council, Dr Hamish Meldrum, said: "We are pleased that the Government is taking the events that occurred at Stafford Hospital seriously and that they have accepted, in full ...
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International Nurses Day Chance To Improve Conditions For Health Workers In Developing Countries, Opinion Piece Says
Categorie : NursingInternational Nurses Day, which took place on Tuesday, was "an appropriate day ... to consider the challenges faced by health care personnel in developing countries," including those related to HIV/AIDS, Gary Cohen, board director of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the CDC Foundation, writes in a ...
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Political Support For Nurses' Day Encouraging Says Royal College of Nursing
Categorie : NursingThe leaders of the five largest political parties in Northern Ireland have marked International Nurses' Day by expressing their support for nurses and nursing. Janice Smyth, Director Designate of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Northern Ireland says their support is greatly encouraging: "I a ...
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Nurse Prescribing Welcomed By PSA, Australia
Categorie : NursingThe Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has welcomed the Federal Budget announcement to extend the cover of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to appropriately qualified and credentialed nurse practitioners and eligible midwives. Under the new arrangements, these senior nurses will be auth ...
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Homebirth: Study Reveals Conflict Between Doctors And Midwives
Categorie : NursingTwo Oregon State University researchers have uncovered a pattern of distrust - and sometimes outright antagonism - among physicians at hospitals and midwives who are transporting their home-birth clients to the hospital because of complications. Oregon State University assistant professor Melissa ...
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Quality Of Life Survey Highlights Need For Holistic Approach In Elderly Residential Care
Categorie : NursingChoice, privacy and a sense of identity are just some of the things that older people living in residential care need to maintain a good quality of life, according to research in the May issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. ...
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Nurses And Doctors Call For "Florence Nightingale Day Protest" Against Max Baucus And Health Insurers: May 12
Categorie : NursingBaucus Again Calls Senate Finance Hearing Without Information on "The Nurses' and Doctors' Plan" for Healthcare Reform: Single-Payer Healthcare What: Activist, registered nurses, and physicians are calling for a "Florence Nightingale Day Protest" against Sen. Max Baucus and his Senate Finance Co ...
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ANF Awards Biennial Scholarship On International Nurses Day
Categorie : NursingThe Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) marks International Nurses Day (IND) 2009 by celebrating and supporting Australian nurses. IND is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth in 1820. As part of IND celebrations the 2009 ANF Biennial Scholarshi ...
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Government Must Recognise Nurses On International Nurses Day
Categorie : NursingInternational Nurses Day will showcase the "wonderful work, skills and care provided by our hard-working nurses", the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) announced today. "Australia's nurses work with people from when they are newborns right through to caring for our most frail and elderly, in t ...
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Senator Boxer Introduces Legislation To Address Nationwide Nursing Shortage
Categorie : NursingU.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced the National Nursing Reform and Patient Advocacy Act, legislation to protect the rights of nurses to advocate on behalf of their patients, set minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals, and invest in training nurses to address the current nationwide n ...
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RCN And WellChild Call For More Community Children's Nurses
Categorie : NursingThe Government must address the severe shortages of Community Children's nurses, according to The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and national children's charity, WellChild. A lack of these nurses means thousands of children spend unnecessary months in hospital when they could be cared for at home. ...
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Foreign-Born Nurses In Las Vegas Hospitals Face Language, Cultural Challenges
Categorie : NursingMany patients being treated at Las Vegas hospitals have raised concerns about communication problems with foreign-born nurses, the Las Vegas Sun reports. ...
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Specialist Nurses Boost Parental Willingness To Consent To Post Mortem Research On Children
Categorie : NursingParents are mostly willing to consent to post mortem research on their children, providing they are approached by specialist nurses, experienced in bereavement and family counselling, suggests a small study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Post mortem research is ...
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