What’s It Gonna Take to Improve Nurse Staffing?

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It’s easy to forget that nurses are the ones who will continue to provide most of the care in whatever health care system we end up with in the coming years. Unfortunately, two recent announcements about how nurses rated staffing and workloads gave me a nasty sense of déjà vu.

On July 6, the American Nurses Association (ANA) announced the results of an online survey it conducted for several months last year: 70% of the 10,000 plus respondents say staffing is insufficient; 52% said they are considering leaving their job (of these, 42% say it’s because of inadequate staffing). Slightly more than 35% say they “rarely or never” are able to take full meal breaks. Over half say the quality of care has declined and almost half (49.5%) are unsure if they’d want someone they care about treated in the facility in which they work. […]

2016-11-21T13:25:43-05:00July 10th, 2009|health care policy, nursing research, safe staffing|2 Comments
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Bloggers Write about Living with Post–Breast Cancer Lymphedema

This month AJN features the first of a two-part article on post–breast cancer lymphedema, a debilitating sequelae to treatment for breast cancer that’s characterized by the abnormal accumulation of lymph in the arm, shoulder, breast, or chest. In editing this article, I was struck by the sense of isolation reported by many of those who develop this condition, which can be visibly disfiguring and functionally disabling, and for which there is no cure. I wondered whether any survivors were using the blogosphere to forge connections. Here's what I found . . .

2016-11-21T13:26:09-05:00June 30th, 2009|healthcare social media, nursing perspective, nursing research|1 Comment
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H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu) Update: Nurse Catches It from Patient; WHO To Upgrade to Phase 6 Pandemic

Nursing Times reports today that a nurse in Scotland has contracted the H1N1 virus from a patient. As the World Health Organization (WHO) meets this morning to almost certainly upgrade the virus to a phase 6 pandemic—perhaps reflecting not so much its severity thus far as its rapid spread around the globe—here's a useful table succinctly describing the phases of a pandemic.

2016-11-21T13:27:08-05:00June 11th, 2009|nursing research|0 Comments
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