Traveling healthcare is all the buzz these days. The New York University (NYU) College of Nursing has created a program called “Feeling Good in Your Neighborhood” featuring a mobile health van that is driven to schools in Brooklyn, NY, each day to provide primary healthcare to high school students from immigrant families. The van is funded by a $2.9 million grant given to NYU’s College of Nursing by the Federal Health Resources and Services Administration,...  Read More »

Summer is a great time of year for the beach, ice cream, warm weather, and relaxation. But for hospitals, it’s one of the worst times of the year. A study published in the August’s issue of The Journal of General Internal Medicine researched the worst times of the year to be in the hospital in terms of highest risk for medication errors, hospital-acquired infections, and surgical errors. It turns out the worst time is July, which is when first year medical...  Read More »

Rather than waiting months to see a surgeon, why not see a nurse practitioner? That’s the idea examined in a recent study done from Canada’s Toronto Western Hospital, published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing. An interesting article on MSCBC.com discusses the findings. In the study, a nurse practitioner examined 177 spine patients and provided the exact same diagnosis as two spine surgeons in all of the cases. Patients also reported high satisfaction...  Read More »

A former nursing school professor has just filed a lawsuit after the university fired her when she refused to use a textbook to teach her class because she said it contains racial, ethnic, and other stereotypes. Nancy Rudner Lugo, MD, had her contract terminated in 2008 after she didn’t want to use the textbook “Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care” in her Community Health Nursing class at the University of Central Florida’s College of Nursing....  Read More »

Truckee Meadows Community College, in Reno, NV, recently created a nursing wing that resembles a real-life hospital, complete with mannequin patients who react to treatment. Now, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), is doing something similar to further educate student nurses. Four classrooms at the university have been converted into a laboratory space called the Nursing Skills Laboratory, which includes six beds, a smart classroom, a reception...  Read More »

A giant purple bus named “Buszilla” may sound frightening, but it’s the complete opposite; it saves lives. In Toledo, OH, Buszilla, a 72-passenger bus, brings healthcare providers to those who are either homeless or uninsured, according to CovChurch.org. The bus is operated by Lifeline Toledo, a mission organization to homeless and poor residents of Toledo. Each Saturday, volunteer nurses arrive on the bus ready to give routine health screens such as...  Read More »

A few weeks ago, media reports touted a robotic bedside nurse named Actroid-F that is being tested in Japan. Now comes news of Cody, the patient hygiene robotic nurse. Cody was created by a group from the Georgia Institute of Technology Healthcare Robotics Lab, lead by Chih-Hung King, MD. The researchers looked into elderly people and those with disabilities who have difficulty with activities of daily living, such as personal hygiene. Cody can help patients...  Read More »

You’ve gone through nursing school and taken the NCLEX. Now what? How do you want to move your career in nursing forward? A blogger by the name of The Nerdy Nurse recently posted an entry called Life after NCLEX: How to Advance Nursing and Your Nursing Career. The Nerdy Nurse points out five steps to consider when advancing your career: Motivation Education Positive attitude Networking Integrity On the topic of a positive attitude, she says h having...  Read More »

Handling difficult patients is expected by those going into the nursing profession, but most don’t expect to be physically attacked. Nurses are routinely spit on, kicked, shoved, and verbally abused by patients, and a recent law in New York now classifies such actions as felonies. On Tuesday, November, 2, The Violence Against Nurses law went into effect in New York state, offering nurses the same protection as provided to police officers, firefighters, and...  Read More »

The union National Nurses United notified the DC Health Department on Monday that understaffing is taking place at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, therefore endangering patient safety. National Nurses United allegedly filed a 19-page report referencing 50 different incidents pertaining to patient care, and asked the Health Department to investigate, reported The Washington Post. The report says that due to nurse understaffing in the hospital,...  Read More »