Negotiating committee members and their hospital co-workers waiting for representatives of L&M Corp. to show up for scheduled talks on December 10th.
Hundreds of nurses at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut will return to work Thursday after being locked out for 18 days following a 4-day strike that began on November 27th.
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Press Release, 12/16/13
In what has become a holiday tradition, nurses are once again viewed as the most trusted profession in the U.S., according to an annual…
MNsure Executive Director April Todd-Malmlov stepped down under fire for the troubled rollout of the state’s health marketplace and an ill-timed, two-week Costa Rica vacation she took in November.
The Nominating Committee of the ANCC Board of Directors currently seeks nominations for appointments to the Commission on Accreditation, Commission on Magnet Recognition, and Commission on Pathway to Excellence, which serve as the governing bodies for their respective ANCC programs. Appointments will be made by the ANCC Board of Directors in April for terms of office to begin July 1, 2014 and end June 30, 2018.
The submission deadline of the completed nomination packets is Friday, February 28, 2014. Notifications will be mailed to nominees by May 2, 2014. Note: Interested applicants may apply to more than one commission if qualified for the listed vacancy. Selections will be to only one commission.
Complete information regarding the available positions on each commission and the nomination instructions are located at: http://www.nursecredentialing.org/CallforCommissioners .
Please note: Registered nurses who are appointed to the Commission must be full members of ANA throughout their tenure. Full membership is ANA & State membership or ANA Only membership. See this link for a description of ANA membership categories. http://www.nursingworld.org/joinana.aspx
Commission on Accreditation (COA)
Commission on Magnet Recognition (COM)
Commission on Pathway to Excellence (COPE)
The following is a Guest Post via Kalen Weldon Travel nursing to me when I was a child was something I didn’t really understand. I just knew my mom worked really hard and it was her dream to be a travel nurse. When we hit the open road, I began to enjoy traveling lifestyle more and more. Yes, I missed usual teen things as in school dances, prom, etc, and most of my socializing over the internet. But that’s just how things are when you are only in one spot for 6 months. In trade, I got to see so many things… Such as the Mall Of America, a Tennessee Titans football game, a Minnesota Twins game, and beaches on both the East and West coast. In fact, I’ve even gone fishing in both oceans a few times. That was just some of the fun things I got to do as a child. From an educational stand point, I got to learn about our country. I’ve toured countless battle ships, submarines and battle fields. I’ve learned a lot about our history that our school systems don’t teach. Like The Battle of Corinth in Corinth, Mississippi was the most deadly battle in our nation’s history, it was also a critical point in the civil war. I also learned that following a fierce night of British bombardment, the dawn of September 14, 1814, revealed the huge American flag still fluttering over Fort McHenry. In a burst of patriotic pride, lawyer Francis Scott […]
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