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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The war in Afghanistan is now its ninth year and seems never ending. Almost daily, there are stories of and suicide bombers, of drones raining bombs down on villages and killing innocent people. Today, over 70,000 American troops are already are in Afghanistan and another 30,000 are on the way. Recently, America's top military intelligence officer in the field -- Major General Michael Flynn, along with two advisers -- issued a devastating report. They said U.S. troops in Afghanistan are "starved for information" and that our intelligence officers and analysts cannot answer, quote, "fundamental questions about the environment in which we operate and the people we are trying to protect and persuade." In stark contrast, Greg Mortenson, a trauma nurse from America, has created an innovative education project that has led to the construction of 131 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, trying to bring knowledge and possibility to more than 58,000 children, both boys and especially girls.
He talks to Bill Moyers, from America's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), about his experiences in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Read the transcript and watch the video: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01152010/profile2.html
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A historic opportunity to reach a much needed agreement on climate change has been squandered due to a lack of political will, nurses say.
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