Nursing

Nurses of all types from Registered Nurses to LPNs and CNAs are in high demand these days due to the acute nursing shortage that has seen hospitals struggle to maintain their head counts. The nursing profession includes plenty of bloggers. Nurses and nurse employers blog about issues that are important to nursing and health care providers.

With a variety of blogs ranging from nursing site and resource reviews to those covering nursing jobs and personal experiences as a nurse the nursing profession is well represented in the blogosphere. Nursing blogs are becoming an important part of the increasingly political debate about health care policy.

With the advent of travel nursing, there are also many nurses who have taken to the web in order to more effectively communicate with friends and family, and blogging has been a useful way for nurses to keep in touch. Travel nurses can use their blogs to share their travel photos and stories with those they have left behind. With more and more nurses relocating for temporary employment nursing blogs are here to stay.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Nursing”

• My Bucket List Cant Wait, Not After What Ive Seen

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  After visiting  Thelma  in the nursing home, my husband and I have been having a lot of talks lately about our health, aging, and where we could find ourselves, you know, at the end. It has changed how we treat each other while we’re still continent. I never thought a nursing home would be all that bad until ...
  10 hours ago

• Bosom Baby Nursing Pillow Slip Covers, Giraffe

  
  Cheap Discount Coupon Buy Now FREE Shipping! — Authority: 159
  Binding: Baby Product Manufacturer: Luna Lullaby Bosom Baby Nursing Pillow Slip Covers, Giraffe Helps position baby for breast feeding Fits women of all sizes Perfect as a maternity sleeping pillow too 100% softest cotton chenille cover with 100% polyester fiber pillow Slip covers now available, see Bosom Baby ...
  12 hours ago

• Get more happy out of your holidays

  
  Travel Nursing Blog — Authority: 129
  Gobble, gobble! Thanksgiving is here and Christmas is rapping at the door and you know what that means. STRESS!!! There’s so much to do and it seems like there is never enough time to get everything you want done, whether work related or not. Like most of us, we have to do a lot on our own, especially if you are a ...
  12 hours ago

• CHED Releases Top 20 Nursing Schools

  
  NURSES' PAD: Online Training and Seminar Updates for Filipino Nurses — Authority: 110
  Commission on Higher Education (CHED) released the lists of Top 20 Nursing Schools in the Philippines in based on the number of passing percentage on Licensure Exams given by Board of Nursing (BoN) and Professional Regulations Commission (PRC). Top 20 Nursing Schools with 1,000 and more takers: 1. Silliman ...
  13 hours ago

• Titi Collection’s NEW “Fresh Essentials” Line

  
  The Fashionable Bambino — Authority: 516
  Are you looking for a new nursing top? Well, the Titi Collection , is the lifestyle brand featuring beautiful handcrafted accessories and fashionable nursingwear tops for moms. They are releasing their brand new FRESH ESSENTIALS line! FRESH ESSENTIALS epitomizes the same superior function and style as Titi ...
  14 hours ago

• Dansko’s Womens Footwear from Day to Night

  
  Hair Beauty Products Blog — Authority: 141
  Dansko is a perfect brand for men and women’s shoe needs.  The brand has a variety of styles and technologies for their footwear brands to outfit the shoe wishes of the majority of people.  The Dansko boots selection is huge.  They offer specialty lines as well as lines for work and play, summer and winter [...]
  15 hours ago

• UNDERSTAFFED NURSING HOMES

  
  Legal Medicine — Authority: 127
  Many nursing homes are focused on one thing...no, not providing good quality health care but their focus in on PROFIT . Profit above all else. What do nursing homes do to increase profits? They reduce the size and training level of staff. Instead of 15 nurses taking care of 50 residents they will "save" some ...
  18 hours ago

• In The Pharmacy. When You Order Drugs .

  
  Health - Wellness Guide — Authority: 130
  Asking medicine in indian pharmacy , try to pronounce it correctly, the better to show the recipe, where it was spelled. Excellent, if you immediately say for treatment of what disease you were prescribed the medicine – in the pharmacy a great variety of different drugs, for example, there is Sildenfail pill ...
  1 day ago

• Specialist nurses are well qualified to prescribe drugs to youngsters

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The greater role they have taken on has nothing to do with the rise in medicating children The pseudonymous GP Dr Crippen suggests that diagnosis and treatment by nurse specialists – or nurse "specialists", as he calls them – is a "dumbing down" of services offered by the NHS ( Should nurses be prescribing drugs ...
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• Inquiry Call Over Care Home Body (Wales)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 141
  25 November 2009 By Hywel Griffith BBC Wales health correspondent There are calls for an independent inquiry into the body that inspects care homes in Wales after a BBC investigation showed some are repeatedly failing to meet basic standards. The Week In Week Out Who Cares in Wales ...
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• McNamara: “I know nothing”

  
  The Bristol Blogger — Authority: 422
  I’ve come across some self-serving, backsliding, cowardly tosh from senior officers at Bristol City Council in my time but Stephen McNamara’s response to Steve Norman’s recent invitation to take him to court takes the biscuit: “I do not know anything about this issue”? Er Hello? What’s happened ...
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• Why we need more foreign nurses

  
  Ben Muse — Authority: 104
  President Obama is opposed to liberalizing restrictions on entry of foreign nurses (White House Forum on Health Reform). He made the comment in response to a question at a health reform event at the White House last March: REPRESENTATIVE CAPPS:...
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• ALARMS IN NURSING HOMES DO NOT WORK IF THERE IS NO ONE TO HEAR THEM

  
  Legal Medicine — Authority: 127
  I have heard many a family member say that the nursing home personnel promised dad or mom couldnt get out of bed (or out of the facility) without activating the emergency alarms...only to later find out the nursing home was so understaffed that no one was available to hear the alarm or respond to it. Here is an ...
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• Uncompensated Work During Breaks Create Issues

  
  Nursing Show Podcast for RN (Registered Nurse) and Student Nurses — Authority: 120
  Uncompensated work during lunch breaks for nurses in Philadelphia led to a lawsuit against seven hospitals in the area. According to the report , the computerized payroll system the institutions were using automatically deducted 30 minutes from their work time whether they took the break or not. The involved ...
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• Learn How to Land a Job as a Home Health Care Nurse

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 154
  Why are there so many people who want to become home health care nurses ? By 2020, the world will need almost one million nurses, as more and more population will be getting old or sick for various reasons. This will make it easier and more desirable to land a job in this field someday. Moreover, the nursing ...
  2 days ago

• A study at the University of Liverpool has shown that 56 years after graduation, trainees do feel their undergraduate education does impact on their competencies as doctors[10,11] and are able to relate their experiences to their undergraduate education,

  
  College Education — Authority: 141
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• Nursing management consultants & being optically challenged

  
  Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD — Authority: 126
  Being somewhat optically challenged at present (need new glasses!) I have nonetheless managed to sort some old papers. I came across a more recent news item from the Nursing Times 8 September, p.3 by Sally Gainsbury. What use is late news? I raise this now because public sector health finance provides the impetus, so ...
  2 days ago

• Madras Medical College to be shifted to new building

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Chennai, Nov 25 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government has decided to shift the Madras Medical College to a new eight-storeyed building, which will come up at a place where a central jail stood once.The government, in a statement Wednesday, said the decision was taken as the existing college building is more than 100 years ...
  2 days ago

• Listen to Your Psychiatrist, Uncle Sam

  
  Better Health — Authority: 576
  Dear Uncle Sam: I know it’s been a rough week. I’m sure you’re grieving the lost of life at Fort Hood just like the rest of us, but I’m compelled to write you this letter. I hope you take it in the spirit in which it is meant. I read an article at Salon.com today that made me wonder about your judgement. ...
  2 days ago

• Safe and Sexy with LilyPadz

  
  Mommy Reviewed — Authority: 126
  LilyPadz are a lifesaver for nursing mothers. I know, Im one of them! Ive always before used traditional nursing pads - you know the kind. Dont get me wrong - they work well too. But they do get soaked fast and then become heavy and sometimes even leak. And that always means carrying spares (both pads and shirts!) so ...
  2 days ago

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