Washington takes a step towards growing the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (ENLC), as the state has officially set a date that they will start allowing nurses with multistate licenses to start practicing.
UPDATE, May 14, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. CDT Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the nursing compact license bill into law last week, according to a Facebook post from the Alabama Board of Nursing. The board expects to fully implement eNLC processes and issue compact nursing licenses by January 2020. Healthcare Traveler Today will update this […]
Modern Healthcare, an organization that focuses on healthcare business news, analytics, research and data, released their annual ‘Best Places To Work in Healthcare’ awards list last Saturday, and several travel nursing and allied healthcare staffing agencies were named among the winners. The ‘Best Places To Work’ awards seek to identify and recognize outstanding healthcare employers […]
By Susan Abram and Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News The 50-something man with a shaved head and brown eyes was unresponsive when the paramedics wheeled him into the emergency room. His pockets were empty: no wallet, no cellphone, not a single scrap of paper that might reveal his identity to the nurses and doctors […]
While members of the Minnesota Nurses Association continue their negotiations with six hospitals in the Twin Cities region, several travel nurse staffing and strike staffing agencies have been hunting for nurses in anticipation of a potentially large June nursing strike. ActionStaff, Medical Solutions, Huffmaster, Nurse Bridge, Supplemental Health Care, HealthSource Global Staffing, Medical Staffing Network and […]
The theme of this year’s National Nurses Week celebration, which takes place from May 6-12, is “4 Million Reasons To Celebrate”, which highlights contributions of America’s 4 million registered nurses, according to the American Nurses Association website. Even if there are four million reasons, one of the best reasons for nurses to celebrate this week […]
By Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News When Karolyn Schrage first heard about the “dominoes gang” in the health clinic she runs in Joplin, Mo., she assumed it had to do with pizza. Turns out it was a group of men in their 60s and 70s who held a standing game night — which included sex […]
UPDATE, 10:26 a.m., April 24, 2019 Washington Sen. Maureen Walsh released an official statement on the Washington State Senate Republican Caucus Website, apologizing for her comments last Tuesday. “I really don’t believe nurses at our critical access hospitals spend their days playing cards, but I did say it, and I wish I could reel it […]
A majority of union nurses that work at NewYork-Presbyterian hospitals voted Thursday to ratify a four-year contract with the hospital that includes the establishment of minimum staffing ratios among other provisions, according to a Facebook post from the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). About 91 percent of the nurses at the hospital voted to […]
By Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News SAN JOSE, Calif. — At two public charter schools in the Sonoma wine country town of Sebastopol, more than half the kindergartners received medical exemptions from state-required vaccines last school year. The cities of Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Nevada City, Arcata and Sausalito all had schools in which more […]
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