Far too many students have received rejection letters recently from their choice of nursing school. Nursing programs are overcrowded and most have long waiting lists. Each year they turn away hundreds of qualified students due to lack of funding, and a lack of nurse educators. Sadly, the shortage of nurses also affects the number of nurse educators. Low salaries and poor benefits add to the problem. The Title VIII Nurse workforce Development fund is always a victim of budget cuts and nurses have to fight just to get the same funding as the previous year let alone an increase that would help resolve a nursing shortage! There are however, a…
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New Newsletter Service
I am changing the newsletter service. The old service was way too cumbersome to sign up. Sorry I didn’t know that. This one is simple. Enter your Email address in the box in the right hand column, and then respond to the email confirmation in your mail box. Anyone who was already signed up has been transferred to this new service. If however, you don’t receive the newsletter tomorrow, please be sure to sign up again. It’s easy this time I promise. The newsletter is in HTML format and is sent every Wednesday morning (10 Am PST). If your Email program cannot read HTML mail, you’ll see a link to…
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It’s International Nurses Day
Wishing nurses everywhere a Happy International Nurses Day. May 12 is the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale who is often referred to as the founder of nursing for her contributions to the nursing profession. One of the things Ms. Nightingale is credited with is bringing infection control measures to the battlegrounds of Turkey during the Crimean war. Many lives were saved as a result of her efforts to teach about improving sanitary conditions and clean techniques. Many oppose using Ms. Nightingale as a representative of the nursing profession for being out of touch with today’s nurses. Yet oddly enough, today we still battle those issues of infection control.…
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Have a great weekend, and Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Moms out there!! Monday (May 12) is International Nurses Day and will mark the end to Nurses Week here in the U.S. Enjoy the rest of this yearly celebration of nurses. photo © Kathy Quan
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How to Administer Heparin and Lovenox
How to administer heparin or lovenox is another popular how to procedure I have just republished on The Nursing Site. There is also a link to some of the latest information about the heparin recall. Similar to insulin, heparin and low molecular weight anticoagulants should be double checked by two nurses before administering. Care should be taken to verify the patient’s medication order and the concentration of the medication being used.