This is a great way to get kids interested and involved at a young age. The Maryland Gazette discusses a program to adress our nursing shortage:
As part of an effort to address a nationwide nursing shortage and give students a good opportunity in the medical field right after high school, Kennedy began offering a semester-long, 120-hour, after-school certified nursing assistant program for students three days a week.
Good stuff.
NEARLY $11,5 billion in cash and pledges was raised in Masvingo at the weekend during a fund-raising function for the reconstruction of the destroyed Chikombedzi Hospital Nursing Training School in Chiredzi. That sounds a lot more impressive than it is. It isn’t in US currency
I haven’t commented on how fantastic nurses preformed during hurricane Katrina. A great article goes into this more: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/80982.php
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, countless numbers watched, and listened, to the growing chaos in disbelief. Thousands of registered nurses from across the nation, frustrated in their efforts to volunteer through government or private relief agencies turned to the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association to do what they do best provide hands-on, front line care to the sick and injured. [click link for full article]
Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association in California has an innovative new program to help get nurses who are not currently practicing, back into the profession. You don’t see this kind of program for computer programmers or for plumbers. Nursing is a really hot field:
Livingston conceived the re-entry program as a way to bring people back into the profession at a time when nurses are in short supply. The agency’s open houses for prospective nurses would draw people who had been out of the field for several years but were interested in finding a way back in, said Agnes Padernal, the internship program’s instructor.
Livingston conducted a survey of nurses not currently working and determined that a part-time program that included a refresher course on clinical skills and time in the field with a preceptor, or mentor nurse, would be the best way to go. The program already has a waiting list, Padernal said.
To be eligible for the Livingston program, nurses need a current license and must commit to working at least part time in hospice or home-care nursing for a year after they complete the internship. Home care and hospice are ideal fields for experienced nurses because the job requires a lot of independent work and decision-making.
The nursing school dean carousel continued today as U of L names nursing school dean. The University of Louisville School of Nursing selected Marcia J. Hern, dean of the College of Nursing at Texas Woman’s University. She will assume the U of L post by Oct. 1 if faculty and the U of L Board of Trustees approve the appointment. Hern will replace Mary Mundt, who was named dean of the Michigan State University College of Nursing last year. I say good move for Marcia. UofL Football would kill the Texas Woman’s University squad.
You don’t see articles like this about accountants. Nursing grad has humanitarian goals is an article about a sudanese war survivor taking refuge in the United States, having two children and making three attempts at nursing school. She finally graduated this week. Pregnancy sickness stopped her first effort in 2003. On her second try, in 2004, a broken ankle halted her studies. Peter refused to be discouraged. She told herself, “I’m not going to stay down. I won’t quit. I’m going to do something with myself.” She wants to make a difference.
A Career in Nursing: Is It Right for Me
In “A Career in Nursing: Is It Right for Me,” Janet R. Katz PhD RN provides an honest, inside look at the nursing profession. She offers practical advice to anyone considering a career in nursing to help them decide whether nursing is the right choice or not and why.
Pros
Offers practical advice about becoming a nurse
Personal accounts and anecdotes from men and women in nursing
Refreshingingly honest and straightforward
An extensive list of resources
A wonderful dose of humor makes it easy to read
Cons
None
You sure don’t see headlines like this in the states (yet): Nursing school shut amid blasphemy scare
A Pakistani nursing school has been shut and seven members of staff suspended after Islamist students protested over allegations blasphemy had been committed at the school, one of its officials says.
Women religious students from a pro-Taliban mosque protested outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences nursing school in the capital late last week after rumours spread that verses from the Koran posted on a wall had been defaced.
But the head of an institute team investigating the issue denied any blasphemy had been committed and said someone was trying to stir up trouble between the school’s Muslims and Christians.
There are so many hard situations in this world. We’re very fortunate to live where we do.
NPR has a great podcast on a child who dreamed of being a nurse and found her way in the military. Rosetta Burke dreamed of becoming a nurse as a child, so she joined the Army Reserves for the tuition help. She went on to become the first female Assistant Adjutant Gen. of the Army National Guard.
After third try, 60 students to graduate from ASU nursing Sixty students will graduate from Alcorn State University School of Nursing on Saturday, about a dozen of those making the cut Thursday after getting a third chance to take a required nationally standardized nursing test.
“Of the 89 originally in the class, 60 of those have been cleared to graduate,” said Christopher Cason, ASU director of university relations. “Of those, 34 are associate degree nurses, and 26 are bachelor of science nurses,” he said. Students in both degree programs took the exam earlier in the spring, with about 70 students failing on the first try. On the second try, 41 of the 70 did not make the grade on the exit exam, which has been required at the nursing school since the spring term in 2000.
I’d never heard of these kind of failure rates until recently. The article says that the test has been administered since 2000. Does anyone know if these kind of percentages are typical?