BY SUSAN SIMPSON A desire to see new places and meet new people attracts many nurses to travel positions. A shortage of nurses nationwide has fueled demand, and many hospitals are willing to pay nurses’ travel and living expenses to gain nurse specialization and experience. Registered nurse Kim Walker lives in Hamilton, Ala., but has spent much of the past four years in the transplant intensive care unit at Integris Baptist Medical Center. She owns a home in Alabama but rents a duplex here during her contracts, which generally last 13 weeks. Read more…

Given the serious shortage of medical and nursing care workers and nurses, lifting certain restrictions so qualified foreigners in these fields can apply their skills in this country is an obvious solution. In its fourth basic immigration control policy plan compiled late last month, the Justice Ministry stated it would reexamine the mandatory limit on the length of time foreign nurses and dentists can work in Japan when they hold residential status. Even if non-Japanese qualify to work as a nurse or dentist after passing state exams, they are not permitted to work here for more than seven years...

By: News 8 Austin Staff Austin’s reputation as a major hub for training nurses has been elevated once again. Friday, Concordia University officials announced the school’s Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing (BSN) Program was approved by the Texas Board of Nursing. School officials said while there’s a shortage of nurses, there is also a shortage of space for nursing students in university and college programs. This new program will help to meet both needs. The four-year program will be led Dr. Joy Hinson Penticuff, RN. The school has created 31 new courses based on latest research....

By Siobhan McFadyen SCOTLAND’S nurses are at crisis point after being hit by sweeping nationwide job cuts. More than 3,000 student angels graduating this summer will be the worst affected as they chase just 181 jobs. Insiders say cash-strapped health boards are deliberately blocking new jobs despite a shortage of nearly 1,500 nurses… and fear patients’ lives are at risk. They also claim stretched staff are exhausted as they work crippling hours to try and fill the gaps. A senior NHS boss told us last night: “Health boards are refusing to fill roles when staff leave. Read...

By Randy Woods The last few years of this recession has provided all job seekers a harsh lesson in the realities of market economics. However, one labor segment – nursing – seems to defy the conventional laws of supply and demand. For decades, licensed nurses have tended to have an easier time finding work in most markets due to a chronic shortage of nurses in most markets. Recently, however, many nursing-school graduates have reported trouble finding work in Washington state and elsewhere. So does that mean demand has finally leveled off due to an adequate supply on the market? Read...

Former Chairman of the Federal AMA and Deputy President of the NSW Medical Board, Dr Peter Arnold, writes: Although John Deeble and I were, literally, on opposite sides of the table when Bill Hayden was planning Medibank (Mark I), our views have, over the decades, gradually moved towards one another. We are agreed, in private conversation, for example, that a continuing fault of Medibank I and its successors has been the absence of a ‘brake pedal’ to dampen the accelerated use (and abuse) of the almost free service. I have done my bit, on behalf of the AMA, in trying to reduce ‘overservicing’,...

Registered nursing is one of the fastest growing careers in the U.S. By 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates, 580,000 more nursing positions will be needed, a growth rate of 22 percent since 2008. A number of demographic factors are contributing to this shortage of nurses, says Maureen Peterkin, nursing instructor at Everest University in Brandon, Fla. First, demographic changes are increasing the demand for health care of all kinds, and nurses and other health professionals are in high demand. “With an aging baby-boomer population, the need for more qualified health professionals...

By CARLA K. JOHNSON (AP) CHICAGO — A nurse may soon be your doctor. With a looming shortage of primary care doctors, 28 states are considering expanding the authority of nurse practitioners. These nurses with advanced degrees want the right to practice without a doctor’s watchful eye and to prescribe narcotics. And if they hold a doctorate, they want to be called “Doctor.” For years, nurse practitioners have been playing a bigger role in the nation’s health care, especially in regions with few doctors. With 32 million more Americans gaining health insurance within a few...

Operation cover-upIt’s degrading the way our teenage girls and women dress today. They are wearing low-cut tops that expose their breasts, and pants that expose their butts. You see store clerks and waitresses, etc. dressed the same way. This is not appropriate dress for the job. No wonder there are so many sexual assaults and rapes. Store owners and others, please remind your personnel to look professional. It’s a sad day when you have to depend on cleavage for good tips. What a mistake Read More…

Doctor Shortages, Deadly Nursing Strikes Shows New Law’s Short-Term Results Won’t Be Pretty By Ken Terry, BNET Health policy experts and medical societies are concerned about a shortage of primary care physicians, which will be even worse when the Affordable Care Act unleashes an estimated 32 million newly insured patients on the healthcare system. And if you’re wondering what effects that might have on hospitals, a new study of striking hospital nurses suggests that the short-term result won’t be pretty. The study, led by MIT professor Jonathan Gruber (ironically, a cheerleader for reform),...