It is a record number of nurses entering the workforce from Fresno City College. Fresno City College pinned 192 students who completed their coursework. This is the largest nursing class to graduate from the school. The second largest class had 188 students. Read More…

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By SABRINA CANFIELD NEW ORLEANS (CN) – Despite a nationwide shortage of 126,000 nurses that has hospitals and states recruiting nurses overseas, Louisiana has barred noncitizens from being licensed as practical nurses there – a restriction that a South African nurse, already licensed in Texas, challenges as unconstitutional. Esthee Van Staden sued the Louisiana Board of Practical Nurse Examiners in Federal Court. She says the state law violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Van Staden’s license is current in Texas and she says, “She wished to work in Louisiana...

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The current shortage of nurses remains one of the biggest challenges the Nursing Association of the CNMI is facing, as it focuses on raising the standards of the profession. This problem will be one of the main topics of discussions in today’s second day of the ongoing 2009 American Pacific Nursing Leaders Conference at the Hyatt Regency Saipan. The current ratio of nurse to patient in the CNMI is estimated at about 1:5 to 1:7. Nurses are forced to struggle with high patient-to-nurse ratios while still trying to meet optimum standards of healthcare practice, the association said. To help...