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February 19, 2013

News for Nursing Professionals

Industry and Employment Trends

List of in-demand health care jobs includes nursing positions
Nursing aide, registered nurse and medical assistant are among the health care positions listed by U.S. News & World Report as most likely to grow in coming years. Advanced practice registered nurses, in particular, should see a hiring boom, this article says. U.S. News & World Report (2/14)

Midwestern states face lack of nurses
Midwestern states, including Missouri, face a shortage of nurses, but efforts to train more students run into limits on enrollment in nursing school programs and clinical rotation spots in local hospitals. Nursing schools are creating streamlined programs making it easier for licensed practical nurses to become registered nurses and for RNs to get a bachelor's degree. St. Joseph News-Press (Mo.) (2/4)

Nurses Everyday

App offers offline access to nursing database
An iPad application from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins offers offline access to Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills database. The app's offline capability enables users to access content remotely, such as in home care settings, or during disaster recovery, said Carolyn Dalton, senior digital product manager for LWW parent company Wolters Kluwer Health. Healthcare IT News (2/4)

New stroke care guidelines emphasize speed
Stroke patients should be given anticlotting drugs and other necessary treatments within one hour of arriving in the emergency department to reduce brain damage and hasten recovery, according to new guidelines developed by the American Stroke Association. To maximize its effectiveness, the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator should be given within four and a half hours after the onset of symptoms, the group said. The guidelines appeared online in the journal Stroke. HealthDay News (1/31)

Continuing Education

Changing roles lead more nurses toward advanced degrees
The need for more primary care providers and an unstable economy are among the factors driving nurses in Indiana and other states to seek advanced degrees and to work in settings such in outpatient clinics, home care and community health centers. The need for nurses with advanced degrees will further increase under the Affordable Care Act, said Kimberly Harper, director of the Indiana Center for Nursing. "When more people have access to insurance, there will be an increase in people seeking care, especially primary care," Harper said. Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Ind.) (1/27)

Nursing dean says master's degrees, certification open doors
Vanderbilt University's retiring dean of nursing Colleen Conway-Welch says when she was first a nurse-midwife she found that nurses with master's degrees and certification had a distinct advantage in the profession and that is still the case today when "you can go anywhere and do anything." A shortage of faculty will "force us to be more nimble and look at additional educational models," she said. The Chronicle of Higher Education (free content) (1/28)

Leadership and Management

How to improve nurse participation in quality improvement
The participation of registered nurses in quality improvement programs showed little progress between 2004 and 2008, according to a study in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. Researchers from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation suggested strategies that would help engage nurses in the programs, such as increasing the involvement of experienced colleagues in helping new nurses translate newly acquired QI knowledge into action. BeckersHospitalReview.com (1/24)

How a palliative care NP solved patient's pneumonia mystery
Don Johnson of Anderson, Ind., had repeated hospitalizations for pneumonia but it took palliative care nurse practitioner Kathy Glass less than two hours to figure out the reason was that he was aspirating food into his lungs. Johnson has other medical issues, such as heart failure and asthma, but he has not been hospitalized for pneumonia since he started the palliative care program last September, and his wife says the program has helped him to cope. The Herald Bulletin (Anderson, Ind.) (1/26)

Position Title	Company Name	Location
RN/ Emergency/ PRN exp req	HealthONE	Denver, CO
ULTRASOUND TECH	Centura Health	Canon City, CO
PHYSICAL THERAPIST	PeaceHealth	Longview, WA
LVN	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Beverly Hills, CA
HIM CODER III - SFT - FTE 1.00 - 80/PP - 1ST SHIFT - REMOTE PSN WITH FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING	Froedtert Health	Milwaukee, WI
SUPERVISOR - MT	Kettering Health Network	Multiple Locations, OH
Clinical Coordinator Nurse - Cancer Center	Florida Hospital Careers	Kissimmee, FL
Assistant Nurse Manager- CCU	North Shore-LIJ Health System	New York, NY
Registered Nurse IV (Clinical Expert) - 6NW - Surgical Stepdown	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Los Angeles, CA
MEDICAL ASSISTANT	Centura Health	Louisville, CO
Security Officer	PeaceHealth	Bellingham, WA
Environmental Services Associate St. Elizabeth Hospital - Evening Relief 1of 5	Ministry Health Care	Appleton, WI
RN Clinic - Allergy/Immunology	PeaceHealth	Bellingham, WA
RN Mixed Schedule Orthopedic Center - Full-time	HealthONE	Englewood, CO

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