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When hospitals & health systems seek supplemental nursing help, they typically ask for help...) Travel Nursing. Travel nursing jobs are usually 13 weeks in duration but can be as short as 4 weeks... 
Mrs. Kim was one of my first patients when I was a young occupational therapist. She was an 89 year old resident of the nursing home and lived there for the previous seven years. Prior...
in rehabilitation and orthopedics units.
Occupational injuries among aides and nurses in acute care
R.L. Rodríguez-Acosta et al. American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
Occupational injuries are common among nursing...
in rehabilitation and orthopedics units.
Occupational injuries among aides and nurses in acute care
R.L. Rodríguez... while contrasting injuries of aides and nurses. It turned out that a ides had higher overall injury rates... 
Nurse Practitioners – Doctors?
[Original post is published on The Health Care Blog ]
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
My recent post on The Health Care Blog , “Nurse Practitioners – Doctors...
The article brings up a good point about nurses, are they members of the medical team or just another pair of helping hands? Sometimes as cut backs are beginning to occur the duties of a nurse may slip...
The Texas Board of Nursing continues to use tactics which arguably violate and abuse the due process protections guaranteed Texas nurses under the Federal and Texas State Constitutions. The Board’s... 
Here are some of the technologies that have changed the nursing career in the past century. 1... dosage of medications.
Yet with all these advances, there is an acute nursing shortage in many parts...
Researchers at the Penn School of Nursing released information that shows 27 percent of nursing home nurses and 24 percent of hospital nurses reported being dissatisfied with their jobs. Just 13... 
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