What is the current state of nursing today? Find out the latest on and about nurses and nursing, and join the conversation about ratios, shortages and anything else involving nurses. E’Louise Ondash, RN, answers all of your questions and provides some i
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The swine flu and vaccine are presenting some problems for nurses. In New York state, nurses are threatened with job termination if they don’t get vaccinated against H1N1. The state health department is telling all people who work directly with...
I know that, because I’m a nurse, I’m going to be asked by more than one person what I think of the American Cancer Society’s new stand on the benefits and problems of screening for some cancers.According to a story by the New York Times, the...
When I graduated from nursing school oh-so-many years ago, there was no National Council Licensing Exam.Every state devised its own nursing boards, and states differed on what were passing grades. I sat for my boards in Missouri – a multiple choice...
California is often called a bellwether state because trends are likely to begin here and that’s important because it has more than 10 percent of the country’s population. So it was with great interest that I read the results of the recently...
Nurses must embrace technology every day. If they don’t embrace it, they at least must deal with it, so it bodes well to stay on its good side. Pretend technology is your friend. Until the late 1960s, hospital technology was pretty basic. I remember...