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Faith Has a Place Here Nurses Use Week to Reflect on History, Calling to Profession

Augusta Chronicle, The

05/ 08/ 2008

Hank Flowers was one of the few at University Hospital's prayer service Wednesday afternoon without a white cloth cap bobby-pinned to the crown of his head.They sat in the hospital auditorium in white scrubs and traditional aprons, reciting the Florence Nightingale Pledge, named for the woman whose birthday marks the end of Nurses Week. "How," Mr. Flowers asked, "can I inspire people who truly inspire me on a daily basis?"

Nurse Debbie Retires ; CARING ... Nurse Debbie Dandy and Inset, When She Started Her Career in 1967.

Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK)

05/ 15/ 2008

AN award-winning Sandwell nurse has retired after a 40-year NHS career with a vow to continue serving her community. Smethwick-born mother-of-two Debbie Dandy, head of nursing strategy for Sandwell Primary Care Trust, started her career in 1967, aged 17, as an ophthalmic nurse at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital. She went to the Warwick and Leamington Spa Hospitals to re-train as a general nurse and worked as a sister in intensive and coronary care at Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham before moving into community nursing.

Nursing Home Week Spreads Awareness of Local Centers

Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas)

05/ 15/ 2008

May 15--HARLINGEN -- Nursing homes are a place for living not a place for dying, Nydia Tapia-Gonzales, resource development coordinator at the Good Samaritan Society, said Monday. National Nursing Home Week, May 11-17, is a chance to make the public aware of local nursing homes and the services offered, Tapia-Gonzales said. The most important thing to realize is that people here at nursing homes are treated with respect and with dignity and we learn from them."

Despite Americans High Regard, Nursing Shortage Still Looms

U.S. Newswire

05/ 14/ 2008

Nursing workforce researchers announce results of landmark studies at Washington, DC, press conference.PITMAN, N.J., May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite a temporary lull in the countrys nursing shortage, data point to a gathering storm that will be like a Category Three hurricane, but one that hits the entire nation, according to Peter Buerhuas, PhD, RN, FAAN, a leading work force analyst.Also, researchers went to the source -- nurses themselves -- and asked for their opinions on the upcoming presidential election, their views on U.S. health care policy and how they feel about their own profession.

Care Home Hearing Faces Delay

Evening Mail; Birmingham (UK)

05/ 14/ 2008

A PROFESSIONAL misconduct hearing involving three nurses who worked at a Birmingham care home where 27 residents died in a year, is expected to be adjourned for a second time. Kathleen Smith, former nursing manager of Maypole Nursing Home, in Kings Heath, and nurses Carol Estelle Bushell and Mary Kathleen Casey all face a string of misconduct charges for their work at the home before it was shut down in 2003. A Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing into the three nurses started in February but over-ran and re-commenced this week to hear the nurses' defence, but the panel has warned it may over-run for a second time.