Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) alumnus Glen D. Lapp, was one of ten medical aid workers who was ambushed and killed in Afghanistan last week, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Low wages and poor working conditions caused hundreds of Poland's nurses
to go on strike and warn the government of looming staff
shortages in the profession, Ed Holt of the Lancet magazine reports.
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Congressman Earl Blumenauer, on behalf of nurses
across the country including AFT-Oregon members and Portland Community
College nurse educators Teri Mills and Alisa Schneider, introduced HR
4601 into Congress to create an Office of the National Nurse on February
4, 2010. To avoid duplication of services and to minimize cost, the
National Nurse Act of 2010 will designate the position of the Chief
Nurse Officer of the US Public Health Service to serve as the National
Nurse. The National Nurse would function along side the Surgeon General
and focus on the priorities of health promotion, improving health
literacy, and decreasing health disparities.
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Nurses who provide telephone advice services have to balance the
conflicting demands of providing appropriate medical advice and acting
as a gatekeeper to limited healthcare services, according to a review in
the March issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
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Nurses are in short supply to work in medical aid efforts in Haiti, according to a CNN report. A nursing school on the grounds of the general hospital was crushed in the earthquake, killing some of the people who would be giving care now. The flood of outside volunteers is mostly doctors, not nurses.
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