Nursing Bloggers Scrub giveaway

Nursing scrubs getting ratty? Is it time to shop for new uniforms? Everyone could use a new pair of scrubs and getting them for free would be even better! You heard right--free scrubs.

My Nursing Uniforms, the web's leading Dickies scrubs store, is launching our popular nursing scrubs giveaway campaign to lucky nurses in the United States. Who's eligible for our giveaway? From now until the end of March 2012, any nurse, or medical practitioner (that can use scrubs), that's been blogging for a least six month is eligible to receive a gift certificate to the My Nursing Uniforms web store.

Why are we doing this and what's the catch?!

It could be worse....

Nursing as a profession is generally recession proof. Yes, in a privatized healthcare system less money means less people going to the hospital.....Hospitals make less money and have to layoff nurses/workers.

But, you could be working in Kenya where 25000 were laid off this past week....I bet they weren't even making a worthy wage to start.....

The Value of the School Nurse

There was a time when nurses and healthcare providers were active participants in our everyday lives. You could access healthcare in a variety of places, and school was one of them. The benefit was not only improve quality of life, but also a reduction in the overall cost of the healthcare system as fewer individuals accessed health services unnecessarily, and still more had improved education for various health topics.

Although the school nurse is still around, the number of students under one nurse has ballooned. Budget cuts force some nurses to have over 15000 students under their care.


Some parents even make decisions of which school to send their child based on healthcare provision. Do you?

Health Ideas rewarded by Obama Administration

The Obama administration has $1 billion of federal funds earmarked from last year's health reform law that will go toward innovation programs designed to boost jobs and improve patient care.

Have any ideas?

The administration will award grants in March 2012 to people who come up with the best ideas to lift care and save money for those enrolled in the federal healthcare programs Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. THe money is coming from the Affordable Care Act slated to fund a new CMS Innovation Center.


To get a grant, projects must start within six months and the program will concentrate on those ideas that spur the most hiring and workforce training.

Constitution Clash Over Healthcare Heads to Supreme Court

Some people just hate to see those in need get healthcare.

http://www.latimes.com/la-na-healthcare-court-20110929,0,6378627.story

The Obama care package is heading to the Supreme Court (the first of various rounds). What's the issue? Afront to civil liberties? Or a civil society taking care of the least among them. We sure know that we haven't been doing a good job of the latter. What's your take?

Ever Striked as a Nurse?

23 000 nurses in California his the streets for a one day strike to send a message to three hospital employers that RNs will not accept reductions in patient services or cuts to nurses and other caregivers.

The members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United walked out. They are making 200 demands to counter Sutter executives that would:

Restrict their ability to effectively advocate for patients
Effectively force nurses to work when sick, dangerously exposing extremely ill patients to infection.
Sharply reduce nurses’ healthcare coverage and retiree health benefits.
The Sutter RNs are also protesting years of widespread cuts in patient care services


Have you ever striked as a nurse? If so what were the circumstances?

America's Underfunded State healthcare

It's not good, not good at all. But thankfully Republicans have the solution which involves cutting healthcare, medicare, and of course corporate taxes

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mapping-americas-underfunded-state-pension-and-healthcare-liability-debacle