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- 05-08-09 Nurses Are a Key to Health Care Reform (Time.com)
"One of the few things that just about all sides agree upon in this health care debate is that we need more primary care providers -- lots more. And an already serious shortage will only get worse if we succeed in expanding coverage to some or all of the 47 million Americans who now lack it. That is one of the lessons of health care reform in Massachusetts, whose success in moving toward universal coverage has created what the Massachusetts Medical Society deems a 'critical' need for internal medicine and family practice physicians." 05-09
- Shingles and Post-Herpetic Neuralgia (Visiting Nurse Associations of America)
Provides facts, caregiver suggestions, and a glossary of terms about shingles and PHN. 7-02
- Nurses Leaving Africa (CNN News)
"Concern is mounting in Africa over the growing number of well-educated and much-needed nurses who are leaving the continent for better salaries and working conditions in Britain."
"As a result, more than 60 per cent of nursing positions remain unfilled in countries such as Ghana and Malawi."
" 'It's been catastrophic,' says Dr. William Aldis, who represents the World Health Organization in Malawi. 'The nurses are the ones to hold the situation together at hospitals and they are all leaving.' " 8-04
- H1N1 Information for Nurses (NursingWorld.org)
On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the pandemic level from Phase 5 to Phase 6, signifying that there is sustained spread of the novel 2009 H1N1 strain in 2 or more regions. This geographic implication means that a pandemic has begun, but the severity of the pandemic and which populations will be most at risk remains unknown."
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be working with international health agencies (WHO, the Pan-American Health Organization) to monitor the influenza activity in the Southern Hemisphere, which entered its flu season in early June (opposite seasons as Northern Hemisphere), for clues as to how the pandemic strain of H1N1 will behave." 06-09
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- Nurture a Nursery (Future Harvest)
Provides a program to help plant trees to relieve hunger in Africa. 10-01
- Camp Nurse Jobs (Association of Camp Nurses)
Provides job listings and tips for success. Awesome Library does not endorse this service, but provides it as an example. 6-02
- Finding and Keeping Nurses - What Is Working (Florida Hospital Association)
Provides results from a study. Uses PDF format. 6-02
- Biographies of Influencial Nurses in History (American Association for the History of Nursing)
Provides a calendar that lists birthdays, deaths, and other events to link to biographies of persons influencial for the development of the profession of nursing. 1-04
- Civil War Nurses (CivilWarHome.com)
Provides a brief history of nurses in the American Civil War. 1-04
- Hall of Fame Nurses (NursingWorld.org)
Provides biographies of nurses inducted into the American Nursing Association Hall of Fame."
Includes: Mary Berenice (1890-1960), Blake, Florence Guinness (1907-1983), Blanchfield, Florence Aby (1882-1971), Breckinridge, Mary (1881-1965), Bunge, Helen Lathrop (1906-1970), Cabaniss, Sadie Heath (1863-1921), Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth (1916 - Present), Cooper, Signe Skott (1921 - Present), Cornelius, Dorothy A. (1918-1992), Dame, Harriet Patience (1815-1900), Damer, Annie (1858-1915), Davis, Mary E.P. (circa 1840-1924), Delano, Jane Arminda (1862-1919), Dix, Dorothea Lynde (1802-1887), Dock, Lavinia Lloyd (1858-1956), Dolan, Margaret Baggett (1914-1974), Dreves, Katharine Densford (1890-1978), Driscoll, Veronica Margaret (1926-1994), Eldredge, Adda (1865-1955), Franklin, Martha Minerva (1870-1968), Freeman, Ruth Benson (1906-1982), Gardner, Mary Sewall (1871-1961), Gault, Alma Elizabeth (1891-1981), Geister, Janet M. (1885-1964), Goodrich, Annie Warburton (1866-1954), Goostray, Stella (1886-1969), Hall, Lydia Eloise (1906-1969), Henderson, Virginia A. (1897-1996), Hoffman, Katherine J. (1910-1984), Jacobs, Maggie (1943-1992), Maass, Clara Louise (1876-1901), Mahoney, Mary Eliza (1845-1926), Maxwell, Anna Caroline (1851-1929), Notter, Lucille Elizabeth (1907-1993), Noyes, Clara Dutton (1869-1936), Nutting, Mary Adelaide (1858-1948), Ohlson, Agnes K. (1902-1991), Osborne, Estelle Massey (1901-1981), Osborne, Mary D. (1875-1946), Palmer, Sophia French (1853-1920), Peplau, Hildegard (1909-1999), Parsons, Sara Elizabeth (1864-1949), Porter, Elizabeth Kerr (1894-1989), Reilly, Dorothy E. (1920-1996), Reiter, Frances (1904-1977), Richards, Linda Anne Judson (1841-1930), Robb, Isabel Adams Hampton (1860-1910), Roberts, Mary May (1877-1959), Rogers, Martha Elizabeth (1914-1994), Sams, Undine (1919-1999), Sanger, Margaret H. (1879-1966), Sargent, Emilie Gleason (1894-1977), Smith, Dorothy M. (1913-1997), Soule, Elizabeth Sterling (1884-1972), Staupers, Mabel Keaton (1890-1989), Stewart, Isabel Maitland (1878-1963), Stimson, Julia Catherine (1881-1948), Strong, Anne Hervey (1876-1925), Styles, Margretta Madden (1930-Present), Taylor, Effie J. (1874-1970), Thompson, Julia Charlotte (1907-1972), Thoms, Adah Belle Samuel (circa 1870-1943), Titus, Shirley Carew (1892-1967), Vreeland, Ellwynne Mae (1909-1971), Wald, Lillian D. (1867-1940), Wald, Florence S. (1917-Present), Wolanin, Mary Opal (1910-Present), Wyche, Mary Lewis (1858-1936), and Yellowtail, Susie Walking Bear (1903-1981). 1-04
- Caps of Nurses (Nurses' Alumni Organization)
"It is believed that nurses' caps date to the days when women wore caps all of the time, even in their homes. Whatever their origin, nursing caps - like uniforms - are unique to each school. The caps collection in the Historical Room Collection includes donations from the alumni of nearly 100 schools of nursing." Provides pictures of nine caps. 1-04
- Civil War - Clothing of Civil War Nurses (Edinborough.com)
Provides a photo essay and description of clothing worn by Civil War era nurses. 1-04
- One School's Fight Against Obesity (CBS News)
"While most of the country is failing the grade on obesity, Nurse Scully says Long Pond students are getting the message." 01-07
- -10-27-07 Growing Coral: A 4H Project? (MSNBC News)
"From that small beginning, a plan for planting underwater staghorn coral nurseries was devised, and requisite licenses were obtained. The ultimate goal was to replenish a few dying reefs."
"Nedimyer and his daughter experimented with different kinds a glue, and by messy trial and error finally figured out how to attach tiny staghorn tips to rock platforms stretched out over the ocean floor." 10-07
- -Editorial: The Right Focus in Education Is Relationships and Rigor (New York Times)
"The Obama approach would make it more likely that young Americans grow up in relationships with teaching adults. It would expand nurse visits to disorganized homes. It would improve early education. It would extend the school year. Most important, it would increase merit pay for good teachers (the ones who develop emotional bonds with students) and dismiss bad teachers (the ones who treat students like cattle to be processed)."
Editor's Note: David Brooks, author of this article, is a conservative columnist for The New York Times and commentator for The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. 03-09
- -03-30-09 Hero Shot 27 Times While Shielding Others (CBS News)
"Jerry Avant Jr. died while protecting others."
"Doctors said the 39-year-old male nurse was shot more than two dozen times Sunday while trying to shield others from a gunman at a Carthage, N.C. nursing home." 03-09
- National Association of Free Clinics (FreeClinics.us)
"The National Association of Free Clinics (NAFC) is the only nonprofit 501c(3) organization whose mission is solely focused on the issues and needs of the more than 1,200 free clinics and the people they serve in the United States."
"Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the NAFC is an effective advocate for the issues and concerns of free clinics, their volunteer workforce of doctors, dentists, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, technicians and other health care professionals, and the patients served by free clinics in communities throughout the nation." 10-09
- -12-07-09 The "Third Pole" Is Melting Fast (Time.com)
"The high-altitude glaciers of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau — which cover parts of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and China — are the water tower of Asia. When the ice thaws and the snow melts every spring, the glaciers birth the great rivers of the region, the mightiest river system in the world: the Ganges, the Indus, the Brahmaputra, the Mekong, the Yellow, the Yangtze. Together, these rivers give material and spiritual sustenance to 3 billion people, nearly half of the world's population — and all are nursed by Himalayan ice."
"Regardless of the impact of climate change, there is a widening gap between water supplies and needs. In fact, a new report from the international consulting group McKinsey & Co. estimates that by 2030, India alone will have only 50% of the water that it needs under a business-as-usual scenario. Nor is Asia the only region that will grapple with water scarcity in a warmer world: the McKinsey report estimates that the globe will have 40% less water than it needs by 2030 if nothing is done to change current consumption patterns."
"This year Chinese researchers projected a 43% decrease in glaciated area by 2070. If that happens, the impact could be catastrophic." 12-09
- -Hospital-Acquired Infections Prevention by Improving Hand Hygiene (Centers for Disease Control)
"Improved adherence to hand hygiene (i.e. hand washing or use of alcohol-based hand rubs) has been shown to terminate outbreaks in health care facilities, to reduce transmission of antimicrobial resistant organisms (e.g. methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) and reduce overall infection rates."
"The use of gloves does not eliminate the need for hand hygiene. Likewise, the use of hand hygiene does not eliminate the need for gloves. Gloves reduce hand contamination by 70 percent to 80 percent, prevent cross-contamination and protect patients and health care personnel from infection. Handrubs should be used before and after each patient just as gloves should be changed before and after each patient."
"Alcohol-based handrubs significantly reduce the number of microorganisms on skin, are fast acting and cause less skin irritation."
"As part of these recommendations, CDC is asking health care facilities to develop and implement a system for measuring improvements in adherence to these hand hygiene recommendations. Some of the suggested performance indicators include: periodic monitoring of hand hygiene adherence and providing feedback to personnel regarding their performance, monitoring the volume of alcohol-based handrub used/1000 patient days, monitoring adherence to policies dealing with wearing artificial nails and focused assessment of the adequacy of health care personnel hand hygiene when outbreaks of infection occur."
"Alcohol-based hand rubs take less time to use than traditional hand washing. In an eight-hour shift, an estimated one hour of an ICU nurse's time will be saved by using an alcohol-based handrub."
Editor's Note: Why not ask your physician how many alcohol-based hand rubs his clinic or hospital uses per thousand patients?" If he or she does not know, refer him or her to this article. Also the patient can ask if it is clinic or hospital policy for staff and physicians to wash their hands after seeing each patient. 3-05
- A Right to Die? (PublicAgenda.org)
"Dying, for most Americans, is no longer a natural event, something that simply happens to us. In the majority of cases, people die in hospitals where physicians and nurses make a valiant effort to keep patients alive until there is no reasonable chance of recovery, often using the latest medical technologies."
"In the course of those efforts, pain, suffering, and the wishes of patients and their families are often overlooked as physicians juggle medical, legal, moral, and economic considerations. In most cases, medical professionals have considerable discretion in deciding when additional efforts to sustain life are futile, and a patient should be allowed to die." 03-05
- Double-Bedding Preemies (Daurelia.com)
"Nurse Gayle Kasparian tried everything she could think of to stabilize Brielle. She suctioned her breathing passages and turned up the oxygen flow to the incubator. Still Brielle squirmed and fussed as her oxygen intake plummeted and her heart rate soared."
" 'Let me just try putting Brielle in with her sister to see if that helps,' she said to the alarmed parents. 'I don't know what else to do.' "
"No sooner had the door of the incubator closed then Brielle snuggled up to Kyrie - and calmed right down. Within minutes Brielle's blood-oxygen readings were the best they had been since she was born. As she dozed, Kyrie wrapped her tiny arm around her smaller sibling." Provides a picture of the hug. 9-05.
- Out-Sourcing Breast Milk (Time Magazine)
"Studies show that children who nurse may be healthier and happier and, if they breast-feed for longer than seven months, have a higher IQ. Equally important, many believe, is the intense bond that develops between mother and child."
"Which is one reason most American moms don't want to share the experience with anyone else. Yet wet-nursing (hiring a woman to breast-feed your baby), which most of the Western world abandoned in the 19th century, is making a minor comeback among young moms." 07-06
- UV Wand (ComfortHouse.com)
"Zadro NANO10 Nano UV Wand is a large area disinfection scanner. Maximum scan area of 13" for faster disinfection of larger areas."
"The large scanning surface can be used to disinfect spaces in public areas such as hotels, restaurants, public rest rooms, doctors waiting rooms, offices, and nurseries as well as home and personal items such as mattresses, pillows, kitchen countertops, and footwear. Child-resistant lock and 10-second timer switch for safe usage."
Editor's Note: Never look directly at an ultraviolet light; damage to the eye can occur. 04-09
- Hayek Breast-Feeds Another Woman's Baby (Time.com)
"If anyone on the planet could convince men that breast-feeding moms can have a sex life, it would be Salma Hayek. The beautifully busty actress, on a trip to Sierra Leone to support a tetanus-vaccination project, nursed a starving baby she encountered while being filmed by ABC News. She did this, she told the camera crew, in part out of compassion for a suffering child, but also to help lift the stigma against breast-feeding in Africa, where men often think women can't have sex if they're still nursing." 02-09
- Workplace - Countering the Serial Bully in the Workplace (UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line)
Suggests how to deal with a serial bully in the workplace when the serial bully feigns victimhood. "The top four groups of people who contact the Advice Line and Bully OnLine are teachers, nurses, social workers, and those in the charity / voluntary sector." 1-02
- Nursing News (Allnurses.com)
Provides news of interest to nurses. 6-02
- Turnover - Predicting Nursing Turnover (HealthLeaders.com - Hamilton)
"While there are many theories as to why hospitals and other medical providers cannot maintain an appropriate level of staff nurses, the overall demand for nurses will continue to grow. Yet the supply of competent nurses will not ascend to the predicted levels needed to replace the accelerated attrition within the field." 6-02
- Nursing News (Cybernurse.com)
Provides news of interest to nurses. Site developed by nurses for nurses. 6-02
- Nursing Jobs (NursingJobs.net)
Provides job listings for nurses. Awesome Library does not endorse this service, but provides it as an example. 6-02
- Nursing Jobs (CyberNurse.com)
Provides sources of job listings for nurses. Awesome Library does not endorse this service, but provides it as an example. 6-02
- Nursing Jobs (HotNurseJobs.com)
Provides job listings for nurses. Awesome Library does not endorse this service, but provides it as an example. 6-02
- Nursing News for California (CalNurse.org)
California Nurse provides news related to California nurses. 6-02
- Nursing Ratios for California (CalNurse.org)
California Nurse provides hospital staffing ratios for California. 6-02
- Nursing Jobs (VirtualNurse.com)
Provides job listings for nurses. Awesome Library does not endorse this service, but provides it as an example. 8-03
- Fenwick, Ethel Bedford (Internurse.com)
Provides a biography. Provides a biography of "one of the founders of the International Council of Nurses and the first registered nurse.” 1-04
- Maass, Clara Louise - Biography (NursingWorld.org)
"One of the nation's most courageous nurses, Clara Louise Maass lost her life during scientific studies to determine the cause of yellow fever." 1-04
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