The nurse-scribed book "What to Do When Your Child Gets Sick" recently passed the 2-million sales mark. Hospitals' use of voluntary and mandatory overtime is leading to adverse patient outcomes and nurse burnout.
Nevada and Massachusetts nursing unions are pushing for mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios; Niagara County, NY officials adopted a plan for aiding the county's special-needs population during an emergency.
Whistle-blower lawsuit filed by Barbara Butcher, RN, who was fired in 2005 from a hospital in Port Jefferson, NY, can go to trial; National Nurses Week was celebrated in a variety of ways across the country, from a funniest story contest, to discounts on warm cookies, to a newly establishing Aide-to-RN Scholarship program.
Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne is expanding its master's program in nursing to include a teaching track; the New York State Nurses Association is backing legislation that will increase the penalty for assaulting an on-duty RN or LPN.
Top 10 places for minority nurses to live and work; a nursing shortage at Maryland hospitals is getting worse; more nurse-owned clinics are replacing the country doctor in rural areas.
First Army nurse to die in combat since the Vietnam War; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton shadows nurse; ANA and NYSNA condemn exploitation of immigrant RNs
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were freed in late July after spending more than eight years in a Libyan prison, convicted of deliberately infecting children with HIV, the Associated Press reported. The charge had been dismissed as absurd elsewhere in the world.
*Nursing organizations object to proposed cut in federal funding to aid nurses' education *United States calls for release of Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor
