Hi Returning Nurses,
I have been neglecting the blog and site for several reasons. One, the Texas BON requirements have been updated and we had to make changes to our program which took up some time. Two, I am back in school my self and had a heavy semester load, it is going well and I anticipate completing my MSN by June at the latest. Third, new grandbaby on way and daughter in law having Gestational Diabetes and we have had to completly revamp our cooking and eating program to get this ...

I have a friend who told me about 2 weeks ago that she was having these weird symptoms. So, of course I bite and say what’s going on. She proceeds to tell me about a heating sensation starting at her foot, moving up her leg, trunk of her body and arm. States it had happened twice and she could time it. Then, on the third occasion she had the same symptoms but, also a prickling, pin and needle like sensation. So, I proceed to ask about other symptoms and history and tell her this sounds neurological ...

Celebrating nursing excellence is near and dear to our hearts at Nurse.com and once again we are seeking nominations of nurses who deserve to be honored at the 2011 Nursing Excellence Awards Galas.

I am certain that you know nurses who exemplify all that nursing should be — nurses you would want to care for you or your loved ones, who have advanced the profession, taught or mentored you as you progressed along your career path, or gone beyond the call of duty to improve the lives ...

I was on my way to a meeting of Maryland nurse executives when I learned of the shooting at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore. Just a few weeks earlier a Franklin Hospital nurse suffered facial injuries when she was beaten by a patient. In August, a nurse was punched, kicked and choked by a psychiatric patient at the Erie County Medical Center. We expect to feel safe in our workplace but it seems as though violence is erupting around us. Given the increased stress people are experiencing, ...

I recently had the privilege of spending a day with a group of nurses at Kennedy Krieger
Institute in Baltimore, MD. Known for its groundbreaking work in treating children and adolescents with brain disorders, these nurses shared some amazing success stories. One particular story involved a young girl who had sustained life threatening injuries resulting from a traumatic fall. She arrived at Kennedy Krieger in a coma. Six months later the young patient had recovered to the point where she ...

I am helping my mother prepare for an elective surgical procedure and as I look at the experience through her eyes, I am reminded that hospitals can be intimidating places.

We realize that the more consumers know about what to expect during a hospital stay, the more effectively they will be able to participate in their care. But in this age of information, where advice is easily accessible, what resources really help prepare patients for what to expect during hospitalization? Here ...

Upon hearing the words “nursing uniform,” a vision of my student nurses’ uniform comes to mind. I vividly remember the color, texture and components of the uniform. It was a light-blue, short-sleeve polyester dress topped with a white apron trimmed in lime green. Regardless of whether you loved or hated the uniform, one thing was certain — we stood out.

Kate Shaw and Stephen Timmons, two nurses in the United Kingdom, recently explored the importance of uniforms among nursing students. ...

When Winkler County nurse Ann Mitchell was acquitted of all charges on February 11th, I joined nurses across the country in breathing a huge sigh of relief. Mitchell was facing third degree felony charges after she and fellow nurse, Vicki Galle, reported a physician to the Texas Board of Medicine for unsafe practice. The more I followed the case, the more I wondered how efforts to stop unsafe practice could possibly result in jail time.

As nurses, we are familiar with the Nurse Practice ...

The other day an interview with Rebecca Skloot on National Public Radio (NPR) caught my attention. Ms. Skloot recently published a book about an African-American woman who made an unknown contribution that changed medical research forever.

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cervical cancer. While undergoing treatment, cells from her cervix were removed without her knowledge. The unique thing about her cells is that they could be kept alive and grown indefinitely ...

Like many families, mine is large, complex, and tends to travel in different directions over the Thanksgiving holiday. When my girls arrived home from college last weekend, we gathered for a special family moment before the Thanksgiving road trips began.

But Thanksgiving is not just a time to focus on family – it is also an opportunity for reflection. So, I took some time to reflect on the nursing profession and want to share my top five reasons for being thankful this year.
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Nurses often cite respect as a key component of retention, job satisfaction, and the delivery of safe patient care. Although as nurses, we want respect, when asked to define the term or describe what respect looks like to us, we are unable to do so.

Several months ago, I invited nurses to participate in the Respect Project’s survey as they work toward developing an operational definition of respect for the profession. You might be interested to know that Dr. Beth Ulrich, one of the ...

Although nurse vacancy rates are currently low (due to the economic recession) and nurses are finding it more difficult to find jobs, we are still facing a severe nursing shortage. According to Peter Buerhaus’ projections, we will continue to experience a shortage of registered nurses reaching 260,000 by 2025.

As our schools of nursing strive to produce new graduates to meet the growing demand, they are stretched to capacity and unable to accommodate all qualified applicants. At last ...

We believe at medcareprovider that ---- Putting extra money in different projects ---- is not the ultimate solution to meet the immediate demand of NURSES or DOCTORS.

We need to allow more work visa for foreign nurses while we educate locally to meet the demand for future.