| Nurses Working Overnight Support The Need For A Restorative Nap During The Night Shift A research abstract presented on Monday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS), identifies a number of personal health, safety, and patient care issues that support the need for a restorative nap during the night shift among nurses. Currently, barriers exist both within the organization and work environment for achieving naps. medicalnewstoday.com |
University Of California RNs Authorize Strike As Nurses Protest Eroding Staffing Conditions UC Med Centers Staffing by Budget, Not Patient Need Say Nurses, Charging UC Violating State Law and Contract Registered nurses at five University of California medical centers have voted to authorize a strike, which would be the first ever strike by UC RNs, to protest what they say is an alarming decline in safe staffing conditions at the well known hospitals. medicalnewstoday.com |
Nurse Visits To Asthmatic Children's Homes Help Prevent More Serious Treatment Nurses who make home visits to children with asthma can help prevent half of those children from having to receive more serious treatment for their condition, suggests research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. There are several benefits of a nurse spending time to find potential ways of modifying the child's condition by changing their own home environment, says the UK research. medicalnewstoday.com |
Urologic Nurses Named Continence Care Champion The National Association For Continence (NAFC) awarded Leslie Saltzstein Wooldridge, MSN, RNCS, GNP-BC, and Francie Bernier, PhD, MSN, RNC with the Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award at the Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates (SUNA) Annual Symposium on March 12, 2010... mnt.to |
AACN Data Confirm That Nurses With Bachelor's Degrees Are More Likely To Secure Jobs Sooner After Graduation Than Other Professionals New data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) show that graduates of entry-level baccalaureate (BSN) and master's nursing programs are much more likely to receive job offers at the time of graduation or soon after than graduates from other fields. A national survey of deans and directors from U.S... mnt.to |