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A 2023 survey of top hospital concerns conducted by the American College of Healthcare Executives revealed workforce challenges, including personnel shortages, once again top the list. Addressing ...
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the first “professional nurse.” The World Health ...
Due to the stress from the Coronavirus many nurses are facing compassion fatigue and burnout. Part of burnout is due to a nursing shortage, there are more patients than nurses are used to taking care of at once. Increasing workload has made longer shifts for most nurses, lack of enthusiasm, and many have become emotionally drained. [34]
The Philippines is the largest exporter of nurses in the world supplying 25% of all overseas nurses. [57] An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study reported that one of every six foreign-born nurses in the OECD countries is from the Philippines. [58] Of all employed Filipino RNs, roughly 85% are working overseas. [59]
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has publicly recognized the organization’s history of systemic racism by issuing a formal apology to The post American Nurses Association apologizes for its ...
Today, the St Vincent's hospitals provide a considerable proportion of public health services. [12] 1857 – Seacole published her autobiography, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. 1859 – Florence Nightingale published her views on nursing care in "Notes on Nursing". The basis of nursing practice was based on her ideas ...
A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (1999) excerpt and text search; Sterner, Doris. In and Out of Harm's Way: A History of the Navy Nurse Corps (1998) Telford, Jennifer Casavant. "The American Nursing Shortage during World War I: The Debate over the Use of Nurses’ Aids." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 27.1 (2010): 85-99. online