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Magnet Hospitals and Happy Nurses on This Week’s Insights Episode 10

August 20, 2010 by admin

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (33.2MB) Insights in Nursing Podcast Episode 10 Magnet Hospitals and Happy Nurses! After last week’s episode focusing solely on education, our panel jumps back in to reviewing a few nursing articles from the week and we start off with a look at a University of Maryland School of [...]

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What Nursing Shortage? on Insights in Nursing

July 30, 2010 by admin

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (15.8MB) Insights in Nursing Podcast Episode – What Nursing Shortage? This week I had a chance to do a one-on-one interview with student nurse blogger, Lovlei, author of the blog “The Dog Ate My Care Plan.” She recently wrote a post on her blog about the challenges seen [...]

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NY Senate Passed Bill for Nursing Care Protection

July 23, 2009 by rnproducer

Several studies have revealed that nurse staffing levels are closely related to patient safety outcomes. If more patients are assigned to less nurses, the risk for errors is high putting the patients in greater danger of a life threatening complication. To address the issue, the New York State Senate passed the Nursing Care Protection Act. [...]

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Mandatory Overtime for Nurses Banned in Pennsylvania

July 5, 2009 by rnproducer

Good news for nurses in Pennsylvania. It has become a state law that nurses are protected against institutions and employers that require mandatory overtime. There are just a few exceptions. These exceptions apply only when there is a national or state emergencies or major medical events like disease outbreaks. Since staffing shortage is one of [...]

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