Happy Nurses Week! This is Nurses Week Give Away Day 2. I want to say Thank you Discount Medical Supplies for the donation of 10 stethoscopes for our Nurses Week celebration. Please visit their website www.discountmedicalsupplies.com/store and like them on Facebook. Stethoscopes are essential tools for nurses! Today’s Prompt is: Why do/did you want to become a nurse… and not just because you want to help people… give us something more than this please. Enter to win one of these 10 stethoscopes from Discount Medical Supplies by responding to the Prompt (just a sentence) either in the Comments below, or by posting a comment to the link for this post…
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Nurses Week Give Away #1 — Nabee Socks
Happy Nurses Week! This year we have some great give aways thanks to the generosity of some wonderful companies. The FIRST give away comes from Nabee Socks. If you haven’t seen these, you’ve been missing out on some great style and comfort! Anyone who spends their work day on their feet as much as nurses do needs some comfort and care for their feet and legs. Nabee socks offer compression therapy to “your legs and feet, which aids in your body’s ability to pump blood back towards the heart and results in a number of health and comfort benefits.” Nabee socks were designed by nurses to meet the needs of…
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Nurse Practitioners Alleviate Shortage in Areas Where Physicians Are Scarce
Primary care providers treat patients of many ages with a variety of health problems. Sometimes called “family doctors,” physicians who have typically filled this role are aging and many of their younger counterparts aren’t willing to fill their shoes. Over the next decade, one out of every three physicians will retire, and by 2020, the physician shortage is estimated to be between 24,000 and 200,000. Adding to the problem is the surge of Americans who have entered the health care system with the introduction of the Affordable Care Act. Google Images While staffing challenges exist across the board, rural primary care is facing an extraordinary struggle. Many physicians are less…
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BREAKING NEWS– US Senate Proposes Companion Bill for The National Nurse Act of 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Honoring National Nurses Day, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today introduced the bipartisan National Nurse Act of 2015, legislation that would elevate the role of nurses in America’s public health by designating a National Nurse for Public Health. HR 379 was introduced in the House of Representatives in January, 2015 by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Rep. Pete King (R-NY). Now there is a companion bill in the Senate. Rep. Johnson is one of several nurses serving in the Congress. Sen. Merkey’s wife is a nurse. “As the husband of a nurse, I know firsthand the hard work that nurses put…
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Happy Nurses Day!
Today begins the annual week long celebration of the nursing profession. No you won’t be buried in lavish gifts! If you’re really lucky perhaps you”ll receive a small token of appreciation and maybe a buffet of breakfast or lunch. And no, even if the employer kept that money, you couldn’t get a significant raise from it. Celebrate YOU all by yourself perhaps or with your co-workers if you’re lucky to have some wonderful ones. Let’s hope you have many great co-workers. Nurses have to find and make their own rewards. It is not often that you’ll ever see the end results of the great care you give, or the education…