Nursing

  • Practical Nursing Clinical Lab Assistant, Washburn Institute of Technology, Topeka, KS

    Type: Adjunct/Part-TimeSalary: $35.00/hour (Updated) 11/15/24Posted: 04/20/2025Category: Health and Medical Services Position Title: Practical Nursing Clinical Lab Assistant Department: WIT-Practical Nursing Advertised Pay: $35.00/hour (Updated) 11/15/24 Campus Location: Washburn Tech The screening committee is actively reviewing applications until the position is filled. Position Summary: Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition…

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  • UK Home Office orders Nigerian nurses involved in exam malpractice to leave

    The United Kingdom’s Home Office has asked some Nigerian nurses being probed for alleged examination fraud to leave the country. According to Nursing Times, the nurses, who are still awaiting the outcomes of their appeals, have had their visas revoked by the UK. The Home Office has reportedly sent them letters directing them to leave the country…

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  • Associate Director of Nursing, Clinical Education (# 2025-3279), West Coast University, Richardson, TX

    Type: Full-TimePosted: 01/07/2025Category: Nursing; +1  Priority (# 2025-3279) SUMMARY: Provides leadership in managing and implementing the clinical component of a comprehensive registered nurse program in support of University, campus, and/or departmental goals in order to assure compliance with programmatic accreditation and/or licensure, internal consistency, and to support the achievement of graduate outcomes that meet workplace and placement expectations. Responsible…

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  • Former governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has said nurses and other professionals travelling overseas for greener pastures should not be stopped. Obi stated this at St Charles Borromeo College of Nursing and Midwifery in Onitsha on Monday. Obi, who donated money to the…

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  • Abstract Background: Maintaining independence in older people or restoring and encouraging self-management in those with chronic conditions are ways of increasing health-related quality of life and at the same time may achieve cost savings. Nurses often carry out these types of interventions in follow-up home visits. Aims: To describe nursing interventions during home visits and their effects…

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  • Japa: Nigerian nurses petition court to stop new NMCN law

    Eight nurses have dragged the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, and the Minister of Health to the National Industrial Court, Abuja, over a new circular stipulating new certificate verification guidelines for nurses. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that the NMCN had on Feb. 7, 2024, issued a circular revising the guidelines…

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  • The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Lagos State Council, has confirmed that the suspect arrested for injecting Mohbad is not a registered nurse. The association released a statement on Saturday, September 23, 2023, in which it said that the suspect is not a member of the NANNM and is not licensed to…

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  • A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK’s most prolific child killer. Lucy Letby, 33, had been on trial since October last year, accused of either injecting her sick or premature young victims with…

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  • Unconsciousness is the state in which a person is unable to respond to stimuli and appears to be asleep. They may be unconscious for a few seconds — as in fainting — or for longer periods of time. People who become unconscious don’t respond to loud sounds or shaking. They may even stop breathing or their pulse may become faint.…

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  • The UK government has announced it will take legal action against the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), over its planned 48-hour strike this weekend. It comes after RCN members declined the government’s NHS pay offer ten days ago, leading the nursing union to announce new strike action and seek fresh negotiations. Health Secretary Steve Barclay…

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  • Nurses are a resilient, proactive group, and dealing with and overcoming the challenges of nursing is part of what makes them so amazing at their jobs and how they care for their patients. The following tips can help nurses function optimally. 1. Practice Regular Self-Care Providing high-quality care requires you to be healthy and feeling…

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  • Nursing challenges have existed since the field began. From social disparities faced by the first nurses to modern-day staff shortages, challenges in nursing continue to evolve. Today, nurses have gained respect as the most trusted roles in society and maintain the top ethics rating in the U.S., according to a 2022 Gallup poll. Though difficult,…

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major disruptor of nurse retention and contributes to increased burnout and related risks of higher nurse turnover. Employers must respond to nurse burnout and retention challenges because theyhave a duty of care for their workforce, and because it is in their own interests. Any pre-existing nurse understaffing and resource…

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  • The global nursing workforce was estimated in 2019-20 as being 27.9 million nurses. Prior to the pandemic, the global shortage of nurses was estimated at 5.9 millionnurses; nearly all of these shortages were concentrated in low- and lower middleincome countries. The pandemic has exacerbated the existing nurse supply shortfalland has forced rapid and “emergency” policy…

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  • A Review of Literatures on Workplace Violence Against Nurses

    Stephen Tee, Yeter Sinem Üzar Özçetin, and Michele Russell-West head “Workplace violence experienced by nursing students: A UK survey”, Nurse Education Today, 2016, vol. 41 pp.30–35 The evidence-based practice, which generally refers to the direct application of scientific, quantitative/experimental research findings to professional practice has been underway in nursing for over two decades (Sarah, Walls…

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  • COVID-19: Nigerian nurses blast Health Minister for incompetence

    Nursing Group Admin, an alliance of progressive administrators and reliable stakeholders, has called for the immediate resignation of the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, over his comments on hazard allowance for doctors and health workers at the frontline of the Coronavirus outbreak in the country. The Minister, who spoke while meeting with the leadership of…

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