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Kiarra Young

The American Nurse; our Newest Endangered Species « The ERGOLAB at Ergonomic ... - 0 views

  • Patient handling is the #1 cause of Musculoskeletal Disorders among nurses.
    • Kiarra Young
       
      This is so true, in high school i did clinical rotations at a nursing home and I lifted a patient wrong. My back was hurting shortly afterwards. Constant lifting, carrying, moving patients puts a strain on your back.
  • No one to teach – nursing schools losing educators  Young people not selecting nursing as a career path  50% of first year nurses leave the profession  33% of senior nurses plan on leaving early due to burn-out, physical issues related to on-the-job demands (source: AMN Healthcare, survey of 1,830 nurses age 45-60)
    • Kiarra Young
       
      this is very helpful to my concern on the nursing shortage.
  • hospital administrators are scrambling to position their hospital or health network as the ‘employer of choice’ for nurses. Nurses are recruited  like NFL free agents; signing bonuses, car allowances, flexible schedules, and front-loaded tuition reimbursements. In addition, Hospitals are stepping up efforts to keep senior nursing staff. Spa visits, entertainment nights, recognition events; yet still the nursing resource gap continues to widen.
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  • Cyndi Davis
    • Kiarra Young
       
      MLA Citation Davis, C. "The American Nurse; Our Newest Endangered Species." Ergo Lab. Web. 06 Mar 2010.
Kiarra Young

Critical nursing scarcity looming | The Columbus Dispatch - 0 views

  • Researchers expect Ohio to be short 32,000 nurses by 2020.
    • Kiarra Young
       
      This is a good fact to know. Not only does the united states suffer as a whole but individual states suffer independently as well.
  • Sunday,  December 6, 2009 3:35 AM By Suzanne Hoholik
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      MLA Citation Hoholik, S. "Critical Nursing Scarcity Looming." The Columbus Dispatch. Web. 06 Mar 2010.
  • There are more than 2.4 million registered nurses in the United States, making it the largest health profession. The average age of an Ohio nurse is 47, and the median age of a nursing faculty member is 51.
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  • Nursing schools still have waiting lists, but that's because there are not enough faculty members to train future nurses, experts say.
    • Kiarra Young
       
      This is one of the reasons why experts say there is a shortage of nursing. Many hospitals aren't training as many nurses as before because of the economy.
  • some local hospitals aren't hiring nurses the way they did a few years ago because of the economy.
  • "It's all very important that we get the funding to educate the faculty in the master's and doctoral programs," she said.
  • These include changing the Nurse Education Assistance Loan Program in the state's budget bill this year to forgive student loans of nursing master's students who teach nursing at an Ohio school, Allison Kolodziej, Gov. Ted Strickland's spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail.
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    Bad Economy affects nursing
Michelle Le

ConsumerAffairs.com credit? - 0 views

  • ConsumerAffairs.com is an independent Web-based consumer news and resource center. We are not a government agency, not affiliated with any other consumer organization and not affiliated with any of the corporations whose products are reviewed on our site.
    • Michelle Le
       
      not affilated with web based consumer news and resource center... hmmm doesn't seem credible because it's not a goverment site...
Michelle Le

Nursing home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • A report issued in September 2008 found that over 90% of nursing homes were cited for federal health or safety violations in 2007, with about 17% of nursing homes having deficiencies causing "actual harm or immediate jeopardy" to patients
    • Michelle Le
       
      important to put in paper
    • Michelle Le
       
      Center of medicare and medicard services[CMS] publizes bad reports on nursing homes, but the govt accountability office [GAO] said that those numbers are lower than actual findings.
    • Michelle Le
       
      What is the GAO doing to improve this rating? Are they doing anything to improve the facility or are is it just here to tell a fact?
Katt Blackwell-Starnes

Rare Source of Attack on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

    • Katt Blackwell-Starnes
       
      The article is available in PDF format. It's an interesting read.
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