Nurse Saves Man’s Life During Mid-Flight Emergency
A nurse and her boyfriend engaged in a heroic act mid-flight on their way back home to Baltimore from a vacation in the Bahamas. Emily Raines, an acute care nurse at Greater Baltimore Medical [...]
With Violence Against NJ Nurses at All-Time High, Will New Penalties Have Impact?
Amid a rise in violence against health care workers, Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday signed into law harsher penalties against those convicted of threatening or assaulting nurses, doctors or anyone [...]
How Understaffed are NJ hospitals? Nurses Say They are Stretched Thin — and Care Suffers
Three years since the COVID-19 pandemic prompted scores of health care workers to leave their profession, nurses say New Jersey hospitals continue to be critically understaffed and therefore less [...]
‘A Target on my Back’: New Survey Shows Racism is a Huge Problem in Nursing
A family nurse practitioner in New York City, Jose M. Maria has come to expect overt racism from patients. “I’ve been called the N-word, I’ve been called, you name it,” he said. A triple minority [...]
NJSNA Region 1 Participates in Hackettstown Parade
NJSNA Region 1 members marched in the Hackettstown Memorial Day Parade to honor our military heroes. It was a wonderful day. The weather was perfect, and the spectators loved and cheered for us!
More Hospitals Create Police Forces Amid Violence
When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate [...]
How Healthcare Orgs Can Support Nurses
Satisfaction in nursing as a career dropped to 71% after a decade at nearly 85%, according to a recent survey from recruiting firm AMN Healthcare. Only 40% of nurses expect to have the same job a [...]
Nurses Who Got Sham Degrees Say Their Careers Have Been Ruined
The authorities are still in the process of tracking down some 2,800 individuals who purchased bogus nursing degrees from three unaccredited nursing schools in southern Florida and went on to [...]
Give Nurses More Freedom to Practice
In North Carolina, Medicaid expansion is a foregone conclusion. The General Assembly approved the necessary legislation. Gov. Roy Cooper signed it. While expansion is contingent on the passage of [...]
In Minnesota, Nurse Staffing Bill Gutted in Final Hours
A nurse staffing bill that passed the House and the Senate just weeks ago was gutted in the final hours of the 2023 legislative session when some senators withdrew their support because of an [...]
