During her second day on the job, the newly minted RN was tending to a febrile patient in the ICU and preparing to give him a shot of insulin. Because the patient was thin, she pinched a fold of flesh […]
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Tanya Sudia, PhD, RN, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, and Interim Graduate Program Director for the Louise Herrington School of Nursing at Baylor University received an award for the Best Oral Presentation at the Sixth Annual Pan-Pacific Nursing
A new Safe Staffing bill, A8580A, was passed by the NY Assembly on Tuesday night that requires every hospital and nursing home in the state adopt minimum staffing requirements and establish nurse-to-patient ratios in all nursing units. The bill also
After 19 contract negotiation sessions in the last 9 months, the nurses’ union at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston voted late on Monday to stage a one-day strike later this month. The nurses’ issues mainly include compensation,
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The School of Nursing at Rutgers University recently created an innovative nursing residency program to focus on preparing bachelor’s educated nursing graduates to work in out-of-hospital settings. Funded by the Helene Fuld Health Trust, a nonprofit foundation focusing on welfare
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree is a practice-focused doctorate for nurses for want a higher degree that gives them a clinical focus. It is the highest academic degree available in the field of nursing, and the University of
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Each year the Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing at Rockefeller University supports five nurses pursuing independent research projects that will make significant contributions to the field of nursing. The nurses are selected from around the country for one or
Linda Sarna, interim dean for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Nursing has been elected to serve as the first National Board Chair for the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). Sarna was one of the original founders
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When you begin working in the nursing field, there’s a lot that you learn, no matter how much schooling you’ve had. As years pass, and you gain experience, you realize that there are many things that would have made your
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Donna L. Murray who currently serves as the assistant director of Admissions and Recruitment at the JFK Muhlenberg School of Nursing in Plainfield, NJ has been elected President of the New Jersey League of Nursing (NJLN) for the 2016-2018 term.
