Nursing’s ranking as the most trusted profession in America the past 8 years in Gallup’s annual Honesty & Ethics poll is testament to the reverence with which the public holds the caring profession. It’s a sentiment nurses return each day when they go to work. In fact, for some that sense of commitment to caring about and for ...

 Ah, Waikiki. It is the stuff dreams are made of. Pacific surf pounding down on sandy shores, magestic volcanic mountains - blanketed in tropical greens - jutting up toward the heavens. But Joe Niemczura, MSN, RN, was dreaming of another destination when we first chatted by phone - he gazing out to nearby Diamond Head, sipping some Kona java ...

Greetings from the 37th annual National Black Nurses Association conference! There was certain energy among the attendees on Tuesday, which was enhanced by the sea of red everyone was wearing as part of the ''Go Red, Girlfriend'' campaign by the American Heart Association. Lots of talk today about global health concerns. One of the most ...

I saw an item from the Mason County News, Mason County, Texas. It offered snakebite tips to readers who probably have seen more than their fair share of rattlers, water moccasins and copperheads. But what caught my eye was the fact that the tip sheet was penned by a trauma nurse, Cindy Loeffler, RN, working at Hill Country Memorial Hospital, ...

''Some people thought this would be a dinky little school,'' laughs Ruth Barnard, PhD, RN, former University of Michigan professor who, upon ''retirement,'' accepted the challenge of helping to establish a BSN-granting nursing school on the island of Haiti. Working through the non-profit Haiti Nursing Foundation, that's exactly what she and ...

Ruth Barnard, PhD, RN, was about as far away from Haiti as a person could get in her cold, blustery hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Newly retired from her professorship at the University of Michigan School of Nursing in 2000, she was ripe for a new challenge. But she didn't choose it -- it chose her. Barnard explains, ''The senior pastor at ...

Posted April 30, 2009 The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) issued a joint statement April 30 about the then 109 confirmed cases of swine flu in the U.S., and offered recommendations to the public about when to seek emergency care in the 11 states where the disease is present ...