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”

• Should You Start A Nursing Agency Business?

  
  World News — Authority: 461
  To address current nursing shortage, law makers, health care associations, nursing schools and universities agreed that we should protect the right of nurses to advocate on their patients behalf, set minimum ratio of nurse to patient in hospitals and invest on nurses trainings and programs. These are the factors that ...
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• 95k Will Take the November 2009 Nursing Board Exam

  
  Nursing Crib — Authority: 120
  A total of 95,282 nursing graduates will take the Nursing Board Exam this November 29-30, 2009 . According to PRC-Board of Nursing member Dean Marco Sto. Tomas, the upcoming NLE has registered an “all-time high” in the history of  exams. Metro Manila has the biggest number of examinees with (40,621 ...
  6 hours ago

• Five Remedies For Breastfeeding Ailments

  
  LilSugar — Authority: 630
  I never found anything more painful than nursing my child. Thanks to tips from lactation consultants and other mothers, I was able to get through the harsh beginning and make it through many months of breastfeeding. Check out the slideshow to see what my five top recommendations are for nursing mamas. ...
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• Featured Travel Nursing ER RN Job in Massachusetts

  
  Travel Nursing Blog — Authority: 131
  Great hospital in MA is looking for some help in their ER. This is a large Level 1 Trauma, Stroke and PCI Center. They are looking for 4 travelers to work 12 hour shifts on these 13 week assignments. The have 2 Openings for 3P-3:30A and 2 openings for 7P-7:30A. They require the travel RN to have 2-3 years of ED ...
  14 hours ago

• Accelerated BSN

  
  Accelerated Degree - Fast College Degree Online — Authority: 132
  Being a part of the health care industry is something that anyone can be truly proud of. There are many jobs available in the field and nursing is one of them. If you want to be a nurse, there are many schools that offer this degree. But if you don’t have time to go to an actual campus and would rather finish sooner ...
  16 hours ago

• Bravado Maternity/Nursing Bra

  
  Informations you should Get4Today! — Authority: 139
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  18 hours ago

• Its about time we gave nurses a degree of respect

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Theres nothing wrong with giving our angels some status and power - except in the minds of a retrograde bunch of ex-public schoolboys Never is our class system so starkly illuminated than when plans are afoot to give (mainly working class and female) nurses some status and power. Such as last week, when it was ...
  19 hours ago

• November 2009 Nursing Board Exam PRC Room Assignments for Baguio and San Fernando, La Union

  
  Pinoy R.N. — Authority: 403
  The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) - Baguio Regional Office has made available the school and room assignments of examinees in Baguio and San Fernando, La Union for the Nurse Licensure Examination scheduled on November 29-30, 2009 . NLE November 2009 (Baguio) ...
  22 hours ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  23 hours ago

• Kaleidoscope at Verizon Center

  
  Required Elements — Authority: 429
  Kaleidoscope, the latest incarnation of “Frosted Pink,” will take place on Monday at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC.  I’ll cover the event for this blog.  It’s a special that will feature cancer survivors like Scott Hamilton, Dorothy Hamill, and Olivia Newton-John, along with other skating stars such ...
  23 hours ago

• Bad Nursing Habits Will Hurt Baby Easily

  
  Rinie Speak Up !! — Authority: 144
  On daily life, parents might get used to adopting their own nursing ways to care baby. But in fact, there are some bad nursing habits they never notice. These bad nursing habits will hurt baby easily. Here we will mention some bad habits as below. The first bad habit is to shake baby when he is crying. It is ...
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• Free Udder Covers

  
  UpscaleBaby.com — Authority: 142
  How would you like a free patterned nursing cover? Just pay shipping and handling after you enter the promo code “Thanks”! I’ve been told to just go to UdderCovers.com , choose Shop Now, pick the product you want (even on the 3-piece gift sets), and you’ll find yourself at the center of the page where you can ...
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• Certified Nursing Assistant

  
  Career and Jobs Tips — Authority: 116
  However, there was a job that turned out despite the economic conditions of shock, those who work in this industry remains less affected, the profession is to become a nursing assistant. By looking at the current situation, where the existence of a job as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) does not have a negative ...
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• Nursing Grants for College

  
  WikiMag — Authority: 150
  If youre on your way to college, you might be confused by the scores of courses being to be had. Selecting one can give you a headache, but if you already know which individual career you want to pursue after college, say nursing, you could go for college grants for nursing and you will not have much difficulty.
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• Red cross training

  
  twinsanity — Authority: 121
  I’m back! LOL. I ‘ve been busy with my Red Cross Trainings and finally, I’m done with it. I passed the Basic Life Support and First Aid Training. Yay for it! LOL. I have a lot of things to tell to you guys, but I think, i’ll just expressed it in tagalog. Nahirapan ba? Sorry, Im not really good on telling ...
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• The Need for Evidence-Based Medicine: Hospitals Are Searching for Point of Care Solutions

  
  Your Story — Authority: 457
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• Be a yummy mummy in no time: breastfeeding as slimming regimen

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 604
  Catherine Saint Louis reports for the New York Times, “For those incredibly shrinking women, the time they nurse is precious not only for its skin-on-skin cuddling, but also for the Get Out of Dieting Jail Free card that comes with it.” And as one nursing mom validates the observation, “Nobody wants to admit ...
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• Solving Rejecto-Dam

  
  Alpaca Farm Girl — Authority: 420
  This article reprinted with permission from author Ian Lutz of Cas-Cad Nac Farm Alpacas. It was originally published in the Autumn 2009 Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles. If you birth out enough crias sooner or later you will run into a female [alpaca] who wants nothing to do with her newborn. Often times, though not ...
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• Vermont Support Nursing Moms

  
  MEDICAL — Authority: 121
  What can Employers do to support nursing mothers in the workplace?• Develop policy and determine who oversees this program *• Inform employees of new policy• Determine clean, private place with access to electric outlets and a chair. Consider a walkthrough with your employee• Offer flexible breaks• Apply for ...
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• Book review: The Wet Nurses Tale

  
  Stand and Deliver — Authority: 495
  Yesterday I read a book from cover to cover: The Wet Nurses Tale , by Erica Eisdorfer. I meant to save it for this mornings work-out session at the gym, but the book was so much fun that it didnt even last a day. Its the story of a young English girl, Sarah Rose, and her adventures as a wet nurse. Sarah is plain but ...
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