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National League for Nursing to Co-Sponsor IOM Global...

February 6, 2012 - The National League for Nursing has announced its alliance with the Institute of Medicine's new Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education. Still in formation, the IOM global forum will consist of at least two dozen member-sponsors--professional organizations like the NLN, as well as foundations, government agencies, and allied health care corporations.

Mandatory Overtime Regulations Found Effective

February 7, 2012 - State-legislated caps on nurses’ mandatory overtime hours are working, reducing overtime hours for newly registered nurses in those states that have enacted such laws, according to a study from nurse researchers in New York State.

HRET Selects Maureen Bisognano as 2012 TRUST Award...

February 2, 2012 - The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), an affiliate of the American Hospital Association (AHA), has selected Maureen Bisognano, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), as the recipient of the 2012 TRUST Award.

First Recipient of 'Elsevier Exceptional Nurse...

January 31, 2012 - Elsevier has revealed the first recipient of the "Elsevier Exceptional Nurse Educator" award at the Elsevier Mosby Faculty Development Institute [http://www.contemporaryforums.com/Live-CE-Conferences/2012/ElsevierMosbys-Faculty-Development-Institute] , held at the Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev., earlier this year.

Nurse Informaticists Making a Difference in Health...

January 27, 2012 - As the health care industry joins the information technology (IT) revolution, nurses are playing an important role in helping their colleagues navigate electronic health systems and finding it a rewarding specialty with great demand for their expertise.

Major Study Finds Miscarriage Risk Higher for Nurses...

January 27, 2012 - A recent study published by the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has found the rate of spontaneous abortion in nurses who handle chemotherapy drugs to be twice that in nurses who did not handle these drugs. Past studies have yielded similar results, but this study, done in partnership with National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Nurses’ Health Study 2, used a significantly larger sample size of nearly 7,000 nurse pregnancies. The study looked at five potentially hazardous exposures: x-rays, chemotherapy drugs, sterilizing agents, anesthetic gases and antiviral drugs.