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Nurse among ten aid workers killed in Afghanistan Print E-mail

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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Poland's nurses warn of crisis in profession Print E-mail

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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Office of the National Nurse for the US? Print E-mail

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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Telenurses face conflict between what is best for patients and what services are available Print E-mail

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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Haiti full of doctors, but nurses in short supply Print E-mail

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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