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Respirators And H1N1 Information Distributed To Registered Nurses At Sacred Heart Medical Center Out Of Concern For Nurse And Patient Safety Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA), representing more than 1,600 registered nurses at Sacred Heart Medical Center, is holding a press conference to highlight serious concerns about the safety of nurses and patients at Sacred Heart Medical Center during this H1N1 pandemic. ...more	20 Nov 2009
Royal College Of Nursing Responds To The Queen's Speech, UK The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded to proposals for the forthcoming Parliamentary session, welcoming in particular the Government's commitment to provide free personal care to those with the greatest need. ...more	19 Nov 2009
More Beds Without Enough Nurses Doesn't Make Sense - Australian Nursing Federation The future care of vulnerable elderly residents in nursing homes rests on an increase in qualified staff - more people in beds without more nurses will equal chaos and misery. Australian Nursing Federation Federal Secretary Ged Kearney said recent threats by aged care providers who are demanding $500 million in Government funding to provide more places for residents needs to be balanced against the needs for more nurses and personal carers. ...more	19 Nov 2009
New Nursing Education Standards Address The Care Of People With Dementia The NMC has been addressing many of the issues raised in the Alzheimer's society report Counting the Cost: caring for people with dementia on hospital wards as part of our review of pre-registration nursing education. Our review, which recently highlighted the need for future nurses to be educated to degree level, will help to prepare them for the challenges of caring for people with dementia. ...more	19 Nov 2009
"Guided Care" Receives Award For Innovation In Practice Improvement Guided Care, a new model of comprehensive health care for people with multiple chronic conditions, has received the 2009 Medical Economics Award for Innovation in Practice Improvement from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) and Medical Economics magazine. Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA, principal investigator of the Guided Care study and director of the Roger C. ...more	19 Nov 2009
Nursing & Midwifery Council Chair Elected Vice-President Of European Organisation Professor Tony Hazell, Chair of the NMC, has been elected Vice-President of the European Council of Nursing Regulators (FEPI). At a meeting held in Rome on November 12, FEPI's members elected a new six-strong Executive Board, responsible for setting FEPI's strategic direction. FEPI brings together nursing regulators from nine EU member states and accession countries, and is also joined through associate membership by regulators in Canada and the United States. ...more	18 Nov 2009
Nurses Prevented From Assuming New Roles By Medical Establishment Physicians still retain the bulk of decision-making power over nurses in Quebec - a situation that's detrimental to evolving nursing roles. According to a new study by UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al researchers, published in Recherches Sociographiques, nursing functions are still very much assigned by physicians who often oversee family medicine groups (FMGs), specialized nurse practitioners (SNP) and oncology nurse navigators (ONN). ...more	17 Nov 2009
RCN Calls On Employers To Protect Their Staff From Violence, UK Responding to the annual figures on physical assaults against NHS staff in England, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "It is completely unacceptable that at least 55,000 physical assaults on nurses and other NHS staff took place in the past year. The very slight decline may be a step in the right direction but too many employers are failing to invest in measures to prevent attacks on staff in the first place. ...more	17 Nov 2009
ANA Launches New And Improved Online Bookstore On Nursingworld.org Nursesbooks.org, the publishing program of ANA, today announced that it has launched a newly redesigned online bookstore that goes live today. To kick off the new site, through the month of December Nursesbooks.org is offering a 10% discount on all ANA products at final checkout for online orders*. ...more	17 Nov 2009
Nurses Welcome Government Action On Overuse Of Anti-psychotics, UK Commenting on the announcement of a Government action plan to tackle the over prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia, Dr Peter Carter, RCN Chief Executive & General Secretary said: "It is welcome news that the Government has made a commitment to deal with the overuse of anti-psychotic drugs. We look forward to working with the new National Clinical Director for Dementia on these ambitious proposals which offer hope for patients with dementia and their families. ...more	15 Nov 2009
NMC Confirms Date That New Pre-registration Nursing Education Programmes Will Be Introduced Across The UK Today the NMC confirmed that from the beginning of the academic year 2013-2014 students may only start pre-registration nursing programmes that meet the regulator's new approved standards. New programmes will be introduced beginning of the academic year 2011. The timescale is supported by the four government health departments and the Council of Deans for Health. ...more	13 Nov 2009
Study: Trimming US Health Care Spending Will Require New Approaches Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by the RAND Corporation. ...more	12 Nov 2009
Downturn Could Be Greatest Threat To Nursing In Living Memory - Royal College Of Nursing, UK The RCN warns that the economic downturn could be the greatest threat to nursing and patient care in living memory, as it publishes a report of a roundtable discussion attended by health policy experts. The roundtable on 'Nursing and the economic downturn' looked into the likely 'aftershocks' of the recession on public finances, with previous recessions featuring a sharp decline in public spending following the end of the recession itself. ...more	12 Nov 2009
CWRU To Develop Technologies For Virtual Coaching To Help Patient-Doctor Communications Millions of people suffer from chronic ailments like heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, and need critical information from their healthcare providers to manage those diseases. Sometimes patients find it uncomfortable asking a doctor of another age, gender or race for information. ...more	12 Nov 2009
American Academy Of Nursing Strengthened By Induction Of Palliative Care Expert Patricia Berry, PhD, APRN, FAAN, associate professor at the University of Utah College of Nursing was formally inducted into the American Academy of Nursing Saturday as one of the 2009 new Fellows. Berry was nominated for this honor by two current Academy Fellows and was selected by the Academy's 15-member Fellow Selection Committee for her outstanding achievements in the nursing profession. ...more	12 Nov 2009
House Passes Health Care Reform Bill The American Nurses Association (ANA) applauds House lawmakers for passing "H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act." This landmark legislation was approved by a vote of 220-215 in a Saturday session. ANA has been a tireless advocate for meaningful health care reform which recognizes the vital role of nurses, creates a system that is responsive to the needs of all consumers, and provides equal access to safe, high-quality cost-effective care for all. ...more	10 Nov 2009
White House Urged To Modify 2009 H1N1 Guidance For Healthcare Workers And Issue Moratorium On OSHA Enforcement Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by healthcare workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza. ...more	10 Nov 2009
Collaborative Arrangements To Have Central Role In New Nurse Practitioner And Midwife Legislation, Australia RACGP welcomes news that the Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon MP, has support the introduction of collaborative arrangements between nurse practitioners, midwives and medical practitioners. The amendments proposed to the Midwives and Nurse Practitioners Bill 2009 incorporate a requirement that, in order to access the MBS and PBS schemes, nurse practitioners and midwives will need to enter into a collaborative arrangement with one or more medical practitioners. ...more	10 Nov 2009
RNs File Department Of Public Health Complaints Against UC Davis Medical Center Nurses Charge Public Endangered as Hospital Management Unlawfully Rations Nursing Care to Patients Registered Nurses at multiple units within the University of California Davis Hospital have filed a series of Department of Public Health charges against the facility, alerting the state to what risk of public endangerment. ...more	10 Nov 2009
NCEPOD Highlights Importance Of Training And Safe Staffing Levels - Royal College Of Nursing, UK Responding to today's publication of the National Confidential Enquiry Into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) study, Dr Peter Carter of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) stressed the importance of ensuring safe staffing levels and giving nurses the opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills, so they are able to provide quality end-of-life care. ...more	10 Nov 2009
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