National Nurses Week will be observed May 6-12 and promote the theme “Nursing: the Balance of Mind, Body, and Spirit.” It is sponsored by the American Nurses Association, which has declared...
Survey: Nurses report high sense of job security, low confidence in ability to retire
Sep 16, 2011
A majority of nurses are satisfied with their job security and finances, but worry about their retirement plans, according to a new survey.
Indiana state senator to introduce nurse background check legislation
Aug 16, 2010
State Sen. Patricia Miller (R) plans to introduce legislation mandating nurse background checks. The move is in response to Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’s (R) decision not to pursue federal matching...
Nursing home administrators see largest salary gain in recent years
Jul 22, 2009
Despite an economic recession and slower compensation gains for nurses and nurse managers, nursing home administrators’ salaries rose this year at their highest rate in four years.
Residents reciprocate when nurses initiate warm regards
By
Tim Mullaney
Jun 01, 2014
Relations between long-term care nurses and residents can be understood through the concept of “reciprocity,” and cultivating certain types of reciprocity can improve care, according to recent...
Rush University to study role of social workers in preventing rehospitalizations of seniors
Jul 29, 2009
Social workers, not nurses, could be better suited at preventing rehospitalizations among the elderly. That is what a new Rush University Medical Center study seeks to prove.
Survey: Nurses are ‘dangerously’ stressed due to lack of authority, poor management
By
Tim Mullaney
Jul 09, 2014
A lack of necessary authority and struggles with management are among multiple factors contributing to nurses’ high levels of stress, according to recently released survey results.
Nursing home that posted a ‘no colored nurses’ order reaches settlement with NY attorney...
By
Tim Mullaney
Mar 05, 2014
A New York nursing home that accommodated a racist resident by barring black workers from certain areas of the facility has entered into a legal settlement, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman...
Database of disciplined nurses still off-limits to nursing homes and hospitals
Sep 04, 2009
The Department of Health and Human Services over the years has kept hidden from nursing homes and hospitals a database of nurses and other healthcare workers who have been disciplined by state licensing...
Colorado businessman found guilty of forcing foreign nurses to work in U.S. nursing homes
By
Ashley Carman
Jul 03, 2013
Kizzy Kalu, the Colorado businessman on trial for luring nurses to the U.S. under false pretenses, was found guilty on 89 criminal counts Monday, including trafficking in forced labor.