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Mayor Bloomberg to cut nursing positions at some NYC schools
New York City workers may be facing layoffs. Libraries are bracing to lose financing, and caseworkers are girding for bigger loads. Now add to the list of victims of citywide budget cuts nursing positions at small schools, public and private.... (Continue reading)
New Island Hospital to join Catholic Health Services (Bethpage, NY)
Written on 27 Jan, 2010 at 16:35 in Featured, Medical News, Nursing News | viewed 1,483 times | 3 Comments
New Island Hospital, one of Long Island‘s two remaining stand-alone community hospitals, is joining Catholic Health Services. The move, which will be formally announced Tuesday, will help protect the 203-bed nonprofit in Bethpage from the buffeting economic climate, said the... (Continue reading)
Shrinking Job Market for RN’s In New York State, Study Shows
Written on 27 Jan, 2010 at 15:57 in Featured, Nursing News, Nursing School | viewed 707 times | 0 Comments
The nursing job market in New York state, long thought to be recession-proof, is starting to feel the effects of the economic downturn, according to a study. Job opportunities for newly trained registered nurses are dwindling at a time when... (Continue reading)
Haitian nursing school with USA ties survives quake
Written on 22 Jan, 2010 at 11:32 in Featured, Nursing News, Nursing School | viewed 493 times | 0 Comments
A nursing school with Ann Arbor ties survived the 7-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday, early reports indicate. The professional nursing school, Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal University of Haiti, is 20 miles west of Port-au-Prince and 10... (Continue reading)
Nursing Students Twice As Likely To Smoke
Written on 22 Jan, 2010 at 11:27 in Featured, Nursing News, Nursing School | viewed 523 times | 0 Comments
Nursing students are twice as likely to smoke as the general population, according to a new study. Researchers in Italy surveyed 812 new nursing students. They found that 44 percent of them smoke, a rate twice as high as the... (Continue reading)
Many Nurses Upset By New York State Mandated Flu Vaccines
The state Health Department is requiring that all direct care workers and those with whom they have contact be vaccinated for seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. “Although we encourage registered nurses to get a... (Continue reading)
Nurses Association demands medical masks for swine flu protection
By Richard Sisk and Erica Pearson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Saturday, September 5th 2009 Nurses across the state are demanding medical masks that effectively protect them from swine flu. A day after scientists said health care workers who come in... (Continue reading)
Nurses On Television, How Far Have We Come?
Between the short-lived but well-received 1980′s drama ‘Nurse’ and the current painfully realistic and often dark comedy ‘Nurse Jackie’ there have been a handful of prime time television shows which portrayed nurses and the nursing profession in an often negative... (Continue reading)
Nursing’s Many Ethical And Moral Dilemmas – What Would You Do?
By Janet Boivin, RN Monday May 25, 2009 A surgical liaison nurse at Boston Children’s Hospital recently found herself caught between doing what was best for her patient and his family and the rigid rules of the operating room suite.... (Continue reading)
School Nurse Spotted First Swine Flu Case In New York
BY Stephanie Gaskell | DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, May 18th 2009, 2:19 PM The school nurse who spotted the first case of swine flu in New York has some good, old-fashioned advice for other nurses trying to identify the... (Continue reading)
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