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Nurses To Make Aged Care An Election Year Issue, Australian Nursing Federation
The massive $300 wages gap between aged care and public hospital nurses is set to become an election year issue with the launch of a national advertising campaign by the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) and the NSW Nurses' Association (NSWNA)...
Nurses, Fair Elections Advocates To Deliver "Prop. 15 Disinfectant Cleanser" To CA's Shadow Government: Lobbyists
What This Wednesday, Registered Nurses and advocates for fair elections will deliver a case of "Prop. 15 disinfectant cleanser" to a group sworn to defeating the campaign-finance initiative...
ANA Nurses Join President Obama For PA Health Reform Rally
Members of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the US, joined President Obama today in Glendale, PA to demonstrate their strong support for the President and his goal of achieving meaningful health reform now...
St. Johns Hospital On Trial For Attacking RNs' Rights - California Nurses Association
The federal agency that oversees labor law has ordered St. Johns Health Center, located in Santa Monica and a part of the Catholic chain, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, to stand trial on charges that it violated the rights of its registered nurses...
Out-of-Hospital Births Increase After 15-Year Decline, Government Report States
Reversing a 15-year trend, the percentage of infants born at home rose slightly in 2005 and remained stable in 2006, according to a report published Wednesday in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Vital Statistics Reports, USA Today reports. Marian MacDorman, a demographer at CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, said it is not clear what caused the slight increase...
Legislation Requires Hospitals To Disclose Prices In Wisconsin
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "The frustration of finding out what hospitals and doctors charge for common services -- from routine office visits to diagnostic tests and surgical procedures -- could soon get a lot easier in Wisconsin...
NMC Improves Time Taken To Suspend Nurses And Midwives Under Investigation By 86 Percent, UK
The NMC has revealed significant improvements to the length of time it takes to process fitness to practise cases, meaning better protection for the public...
MPs And Nurses Rally Behind RCN "Nursing Counts" Campaign, UK
MPs from all the main political parties have rallied behind the RCN's General Election call to back specialist nursing. Almost sixty MPs have signed a cross party Early Day Motion calling for specialist nursing provision to be available to all patients with long term conditions - one of the six health priorities for the next government, according to the RCN...
RNs Reach Settlement At St. Joseph, Eureka Hospital Cite Gains For Patients, Security For RNs
Registered nurses at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka have achieved a tentative settlement with hospital officials on a new collective bargaining agreement that nurses say bring significant improvements in patient care protections and economic gains for the RNs. Some 375 St. Joseph Eureka RNs are represented by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC)...
Federal Court Rejects California Medicaid Cuts
The San Francisco Chronicle: "A federal appeals court barred California on Wednesday from lowering Medi-Cal payments to doctors and hospitals by 5 percent and from cutting in-home care workers' wages by nearly 20 percent, saying the state's budget crisis doesn't justify violating federal laws that protect the poor and disabled. In four rulings, the Ninth U.S...
Amid Calls For More Highly Educated Nurses, New AACN Data Show Impressive Growth In Doctoral Nursing Programs
According to new survey data released by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), enrollment in doctoral nursing programs increased by more than 20% this year, signaling strong interest among students in careers as nursing scientists, faculty, primary care providers, and specialists...
Ahead Of HIMSS 2010, Siemens Seeks Nursing Perspectives On Meaningful Use Impact
Soon after The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its proposed rules for "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs) on December 30, 2009, Siemens asked two prominent chief nursing officers (CNO) how the new guidelines support nurses' commitment to quality patient care delivery, enhance their care documentation capabilities, and can spur further health...
Call For Nurses, Midwives And Health Service Boards To Restate Their Commitment To High Quality Care, UK
Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England sets out the way forward for the future of the professions. Nurses and midwives must renew their pledge to society to deliver high quality, compassionate care - and must be better supported to do so by their employers, according to a new report on the future of nursing and midwifery in England published today...
When Propofol Is Administered By Trained Professional Adverse Events Rate Is Low
Propofol is safe for advanced endoscopic procedures with a low rate of sedation-related adverse events when administered by a trained professional, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute...
ANA Nurses Stand With President In Support Of Health Reform Now
Members of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the US, joined President Obama today at the White House to demonstrate their strong support for the President and his goal of achieving meaningful health reform now...
Also In Global Health News: U.S. Ambassador To U.N.; Male Circumcision; River Blindness In Ecuador; Nursing Shortage In Caribbean; Maternal Health
U.S. Ambassador To U.N. In Geneva Assumes Position, Ending 13 Month Vacancy Betty King reported to her new position as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. "Washington's Geneva mission had been without an ambassador since Warren W. Tichenor left his post on Jan...
National Healthcare Organization's New Catheterization Resource Is Beneficial To Millions
The National Association For Continence (NAFC) has released a new consumer educational resource, focusing on catheterization procedures and care in the United States...
Training Kit For Operating Room Emergencies Now Available
When the anesthesia care provider yells the code "Malignant Hyperthermia!" during a routine surgery there are approximately 15 minutes to save this patient's life, you are excited but not panicking--- why? The Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States (MHAUS) introduces a new MH Mock Drill Training Kit for Operating Room Staff to better prepare for MH emergencies...
University Hospital Of South Manchester Improves Community-Based Antenatal Care Using Aruba's Virtual Branch Networking Solution
Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARUN), a global leader in 802.11n wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, announced that the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (UHSM) in the United Kingdom is using Aruba's Virtual Branch Networking (VBN) solution to increase the quality of antenatal services delivered to the local community...
Nurses Welcome Biggest Healthcare Reform Since Medicare, Australia
Ged Kearney, Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation said that the reforms to heath care announced by the Prime Minister are the most significant to the health system since the introduction of Medicare. "These reforms fundamentally alter how we fund and deliver health care in Australia making it more transparent and accountable...
NMC Welcomes Recommendations Of The Report Of The Prime Minister's Independent Commission On The Future Of Nursing And Midwifery
The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) has welcomed the recommendations of the Prime Minister's independent Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England published today...
Warren Buffett Supports Senate Bill, Franken And Ryan Pushing Their Health Reform Ideas
Various personalities are weighing in on health legislation. CNBC interviewed billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who "called the nation's health care spending 'untenable,' comparing 'out of control' costs to a 'tapeworm eating at our economic body...
Commission Heralds New Image For Future Of Nursing, UK
UNISON, the UK's largest public sector union, today (2 March) welcomed the focus on high quality, compassionate nursing contained in the Prime Minister's Commission report.* The report puts nurses and midwives at the heart of the NHS, sweeping away old fashioned ideas and replacing them with the reality of the highly professional nurses and midwives of today...
California Nurses Association Cheers Eden District Board For Courageous Action To Overturn Sutter Deal
Malinda Markowitz, RN, co-President of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee issued the following statement in the wake of this week's vote by the Eden Township District Health Board to sue Sutter Health over conflicts of interest and cancel the Memorandum of Understanding that is the basis of Sutter's attempts to close down San Leandro Hospital...
Studies Examine Team Approaches To Hospital Care
Multidisciplinary care teams consisting of clinicians, nurses and other health care professionals appear to be associated with a lower risk of death among patients in the intensive care unit, according to a report in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...