2. Nurses work environment plays a large role in
the ability to provide quality care.
The atmosphere of a facility is critically
important .
It impacts everything from the safety of
patients and their caregivers to job
satisfactions .
Studies consistenly show how work environment
issues, such as nurse staffing are linked with
patient outcomes ,length of stay, and chance
of death ANA supports a healthy work
environment for all nurses and patients.
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3. In 1783 there was a slave named James Durham. He
worked as a nurse in New Orleans, eventually earning
enough money to buy his freedom and move to
Philadelphia, where he studied medicine and became a
doctor.
Men and women between the ages of 25 and 44 account
for 33 percent of all people in the U. S. who come to
emergency rooms with injury-related wounds.
In 1846 the first hospital training school for nurses, the
Institute for Protestant Deaconesses, was established in the
town of Kaiserwerth, Germany.
The National Association of School Nurses recommends
nurse-to-study ratios should be one to 750 for general
populations, one to 250 in mainstreamed populations and
1 to 125 in severely handicapped populations.
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4. Nursing is the largest health care occupation
with 2.6 million registered nurses.
Nursing is also one of the fastest growing
occupations in the U.S.
But did you know that despite the current
easing of the nursing shortage due the
recession , the U.S nursing shortage is
projected to grow to 260,000 registered nurses
by 2025 , according to an article in July/August
2009 health affairs.
A shortage of this magnited would be large as
any nursing shortage experienced in this
country since the MID- 1960`s
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5. Linda Richards became the first nurse to
earn a nursing diploma in the United States
in 1873.
According to the latest data available to
the World Health Organization, Finland,
Norway, Monaco, Ireland have in that
order, the highest ratios of nurses per
capital of all nations, ranging from 2162.0 to
1182.0 nurses per 100,000 people.
The National Association of Colored
Graduate Nurses was formed in 1908.
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6. Staff nurses RN – 68,453
Staff nurses -RN-Hospice-63,295
Staff nurses-RN-Nursing home-54,953
Nurses salary is up to 94,720 dollars every
month. !!!They work all week!!!
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8. The purpose of the AENT program is to
increase the number of advanced
education nurses trained to practice as
primary care providers or nursing faculty
shortage that inhabits schools from
educating the number of nurses need to
meet demand.
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9. The Nursery purpose is a program that
provide federal funding there are projects
that support the ANA.
Many school districts have cut or reduced
the hours of school nurses in recent years,
and nationwide less than half of public
schools have a full-time nurse job.
They say their results security “careful
thought” from districts that are thinking of
making such cuts in an effort to save
money.
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