Fall River, MA
Nurses in one unit of St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, MA are making use of new technology to spend more time at patients’ bedside. The Massachusetts hospital was picked along with 67 other hospitals to be in a national research project — Transforming Care at the Bedside — the study’s goal is [...]
If you’re a travel nurse with seasonal, or year-round allergies, you’ll be happy to know that the FDA has approved Alcon’s olopatadine hydrochloride (Patanase) spray sor seasonal allergic rhinitis in sufferers 12 years of age and up. The clinical trials showed the product to be safe and effective and tests showed a 30-minute onset time [...]
Nobody wishes for more disasters to occur. But when they do occur, it’s the dedicated nurses and travel nurses who play a crucial role in not only disaster preparedness, but also in disaster response.
This became very evident during Hurricane Katrina. Health problems were magnified exponentially, hospitals were overflowing with patients and temporary shelters were built [...]
The short answer is, of course, no. At least not at the same time.
Typically, travel nurse staffing agencies write clauses into their contracts that prohibit you from returning to a particular facility under a contract with a different agency. Some agencies will ‘allow’ it but only after the original agency is paid a ‘nominal’ fee [...]
AllNurses.com is having their 4th annual Nursing Article Contest. This year’s theme is anything to do with Critical Care Nursing. For all you critical care travel nurses out there, this might be a god way to let out some of that creativity you don’t always get to use on the job.
You can get more info [...]
The Media Image of Nurses
All too commonly, today’s popular TV shows cast nurses as mere physician assistants and peons who have little or no technical knowledge of medicine. These misrepresentations and typecasts often result in nurses getting less authority and respect from two very important areas: patients and doctors, which obviously [...]
The National Nurse
The idea of a National Nurse in the United States has been proposed, but not yet implemented. Much of the lobbying and pressure for this new post has been generated by the National Nursing Network Organization and includes. The Office of the National Nurse would, according to the NNNO’s website:
Elevate the Chief Nurse [...]
Travel nurses may not consider it, but the fact is that political issues affect their lives as well as the lives of every single American today. This is even more true in the world of health care where issues range from financial to moral and few are anything but controversial. Each issue is very important [...]
We figured it would be a good idea to post some tips that should be at the top of a travel nurse’s list when looking for a travel nurse staffing company and what should be in the travel nurse’s contract.
1. If an item is not in writing, then it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t matter what [...]