Where do most nurses find employment?

Once you graduate from nursing school you will have a wide variety of places to look for nursing jobs. Where do most nurses end up working after graduation?
According to a survey by the Department of Health and Human Services, hospitals are by far the biggest employers of nurses. 56.2 percent of nurses work at [...]

Source: http://nursingschoolprograms.com/where-do-most-nurses-find-employment.html

Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre

The new Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre has been launched by Professor Simon Foote. Professor James Vickers and Professor Andrew Robinson will be the joint Directors of the Centre.

Source: http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/healthsci/tson/newsdetail.asp?lNewsEventId=3081

Aspiring nursing students, start your engines!

It’s almost the end of January 2008, so if you are thinking of applying to nursing school for the fall semester of 2009, now’s the time. Some schools start nursing classes several times throughout the year; traditional schools start in the fall.
Here’s what you need to do:
Get together your list of all of the nursing [...]

Source: http://nursingschoolprograms.com/aspiring-nursing-students-start-your-engines.html

Nurse-patient ratios

A professor at the University of Central Florida Health Services Administration just did a study which shows that hospitals with higher RN staffing levels have lower patient mortality and less post-operative complications than hospitals with lower nurse to patiant ratios.
Go figure, eh?
Florida, unfortunately, is not one of those states that has a maximum nurse-patient ratio, [...]

Source: http://nursingschoolprograms.com/nurse-patient-ratios.html

Nursing History

Dr Sheryl Brennan has recently completed her second publication on Nursing History in Australia. Details are available online.

Source: http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/healthsci/tson/newsdetail.asp?lNewsEventId=2759

Five reasons there’s a nursing shortage

Most people these days realize that there is a severe nursing shortage and that it’s only going to get worse, but not everyone realizes why this is so.
Here are five reasons why hospitals, doctor’s offices, schools, clinics, and other employers all across America, in small towns and big cities, are scrambling to find nurses:
1.) Nursing [...]

Source: http://nursingschoolprograms.com/five-reasons-theres-a-nursing-shortage.html