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Nurse Designers Create Environments of Care for Patients and Staff

In patient rooms at Banner Estrella Medical Center in Phoenix, wall connections for data and electrical outlets are all at least 24 inches high. In the facility’s intensive care unit, electrical and data connections are on the corridor side of patient beds.

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Nurses reject States' pay offer

Jersey's nurses have rejected the latest States' pay offer and have discussed the possibility of taking strike action.

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Opinions differ on 'guarantee' to hire 4,000 tull-time nursing grads

The government recently promised $89 million to give all 4,000 or so graduating nursing students in Ontario a job when they graduate.

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Nursing: A Career in Caring?

What makes nursing attractive to an adult with work experience in other areas?

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The future of the Army Nurse Corps is in jeopardy.

So says Major General Gale Pollock, chief of the Army Nurse Corps in a March 8, 2007 article in the Washington Post. No reader of this blog is surprised, as this N=1 has been screaming and typing until bloody stubs of fingers and a hoarse voice call for a halt.

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US nursing group wants full retake

The American Nurses Association (ANA) has added to the woes of the Filipino nurses of batch June 2006 licensure exam: ANA urges them to retake the entire licensure exam not just Tests 3 and 5.

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cbs5.com - The Growing Need For Nurses

The need for nurses is skyrocketing across the country, and especially in California. Hospitals are scrambling to comply with new staffing requirements of one nurse for every five patients. Sharon Hadick, Manager of Nurse Recruitment for Stanford Hospital, says the challenges are enormous.

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USATODAY.com - Nursing shortage drums up demand for happy nomads

The travel-nurse industry, which suffered with the economy in recent years as staff nurses sought overtime and hospitals balked at travel-nurse costs, is on the rebound. Thousands of jobs are open, staffing companies say.

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