Posted by admin on June 2nd, 2010
By BRENNE MEIROWITZ
If you plan on working in New York City as a school nurse, you may reconsider your decision to enroll in a school nursing program. If you are already enrolled in one, you may consider switching your major to another field of medicine. According to Jenny Anderson, reporter for the New York Times, New York City Mayor Bloomberg has proposed eliminating nursing positions at schools with an enrollment of 300 students or less. Mind you, when you are referring to public school enrollment numbers, these numbers are not necessarily equal to the actual number of students attending a school. This is especially true in tightly budgeted schools, where funding is based on enrollment numbers. If this passes, what additional risks involved in not having a medical professional stationed at a school – especially in an über-crowded urban city such as New York. What happens in emergencies? Will teachers be made responsible for the health and safety of students? Even if a teacher were given basic first aid instruction, who would attend to the rest of the students while he or she is caring for the ill student?
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Posted by admin on May 26th, 2010
By BRENNE MEIROWITZ
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In Oklahoma, nursing abuse fines are funding free CNA training classes, expected to begin in 2010. The free program was organized when the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), in cooperation with Tulsa Community College and Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education established a fund of $371,000 that will cover the cost of training approximately 900-1,000 CNA students in 2010.
The money to provide free training classes comes from penalties collected from nursing homes that were fined by OSDH for delivering substandard care, i.e. nursing abuse. It is possible that Certified Nursing Assistants from these very same nursing homes will be turn out to be beneficiaries of the scholarship, which has aims of improving overall patient care in long-term care facilities. The core of the free CNA program is to upgrade the skills and knowledge of nursing assistants to a level CNA 2. Tulsa Community College also offers more advanced training for those nursing assistants who wish to advance to the CNA 3 level, but this level is not currently funded.
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Posted by admin on April 11th, 2010
Hadassah nurses Rachel Landy and Rose Kaplan with Eva Leon, Jerusalem, 1913. Courtesy of Hadassah Archives.
By BRENNE MEIROWITZ
The demand for licensed nurses continues to grow in Israel, so if you are planning to make Aliyah and work as a nurse, this article briefly covers Israeli nursing prerequisites for licensing. The Agaf HaSiud – the nursing division of the Misrad HaBriut (Ministry of Health), issues all Israeli registered nurse licenses, so when possible, you should have your foreign transcripts reviewed by the Misrad HaBriut, before making Aliyah. In most cases, an educational waiver will be granted if your foreign transcripts contain coursework that covers at least 80% of Israeli mandated theoretical and clinical studies coursework. If you are lacking any of the courses, you may take the necessary nursing prerequisite courses in Israel. However, in either case, a mandatory, 98 hour (7 credit) preparatory internship must be satisfactorily completed before a nursing candidate is eligible to take the exam.
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