Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
New Jersey State Nurses Association (NJSNA) awarded its 2008 C.A.R.E. (Clinical Practice Administration Research Education) Award for Excellence in Research to Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member Linda Flynn.Flynn, assistant professor at the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will be honored with three other C.A.R.E.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Commenting on the National Audit Office report highlighting a 58% increase in GP salaries over the past three years, Karen Jennings, UNISON Head of Health said:"It's clear from the NAO report that while GP's pay has risen dramatically, nurses and other practice staff have seen an increase in their workload without an increase in reward.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
In the face of what they describe as a "hostile" bargaining attitude by Sutter Health, registered nurses at 11 Sutter Health facilities in the Bay Area will vote this week and next on whether to authorize their bargaining teams to strike the hospital chain for a third time over serious issues of patient safety and patient care, as well as healthcare for nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee reports.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney TD, congratulated the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street on being the first organisation in Ireland to introduce nurse/midwife prescribing on 25th January, 2008.'The introduction of nurse/midwife prescribing is a real and significant change in nursing and midwifery practice in Ireland' the Minister said.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Growth in health care spending in the United States is projected to be 6.7 percent in 2007, according to a report issued today by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Average annual growth is expected to remain near that rate through 2017, the report said.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The practice of recruiting trained health personnel from sub-Saharan Africa to work in developed nations is weakening health infrastructures and undermining efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in the region, according to an article published in the Feb. 23 issue of the Lancet, Reuters reports.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
In responding to the government's announcement of the make-up of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission, the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) expressed concerns regarding the future direction of health reform in Australia."While there are good people on the commission, and we welcome the appointment of an experienced nurse, many people with a well demonstrated commitment to reform have been overlooked," Ged Kearney, ANF Assistant Federal Secretary said.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Outpatient care for the Army’s wounded warriors is an “entirely new system” that is better now at taking care of soldiers than it was a year ago, the service secretary said in Washington D.C. on Feb. 15. Army Secretary Pete Geren spoke to a packed auditorium during a ceremony honoring the addition of the Wounded Warrior Clinic at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
When Medicare began paying for older women to undergo preventive mammograms in 1991, doctors expected breast cancer mortality rates to drop. Breast cancer deaths did decrease, but new research has unveiled a discrepancy: African-American women as a group do not benefit as much as white women.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Fulfilling a lifelong desire to write a book has ended a 26-year perioperative nurse’s career at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, with the venerable institution terminating the employment of Adrienne Zurub, RN, MA, CNOR.
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