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A Lifetime of Nursing - Growing VOA Healthcare Services in Rural Colorado

May 14, 2021

A spotlight on Pam Shilts, Regional Clinical Consultant Pam Shilts has been a long-time nursing leader tenaciously shaping the direction of Volunteers of America healthcare services in rural Western Colorado over the better part of 40 years. Her story begins with an early involvement in long-term care for a loved one – her grandfather. In the 1970s, Pam Shilts’ grandfather Raleigh Leroy (Red) Hindman was a resident...

Lutheran North students take part in health conference

May 13, 2021

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Nearly 3,000 students from across Michigan competed in a single-day conference aimed at helping students become leaders in the global health community. The 41st annual Michigan HOSA State Leadership Conference took place April 23. Due to the pandemic, it was held virtually. In Macomb Township, one school that took part in the conference was Macomb Lutheran North, which had 17 students competing in nine events....

Companies celebrate National Nurses Day with freebies, discounts

May 07, 2021

PEORIA, Ill. ( WMBD ) – In honor of National Nurses Day, some companies are thanking health care workers with freebies and discounts. National Nurses Week runs through May 12, which is the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. The companies include Chipotle, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, McAlister’s Deli, Outback Steakhouse, Potbelly Sandwich Shop and Staples. Here’s a list of freebies...

Brother's health scare inspires Curry senior to pursue career in medicine

May 05, 2021

CURRY — Mia Daniels is well on her way to a career in medicine. Daniels, a senior at Curry High, will begin studying nursing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in the fall. Her goal is to one day be a nurse practitioner and to possibly specialize in neurology or psychology. Daniels is becoming a nurse because of her brother, Chase Hacker, who was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was 10 and he was 13. "He went from...

Careers in nursing fill a growing need in the U.S.

May 03, 2021

The Florence Nightingale Museum in London has a voice recording of the founder of modern nursing, captured on July 30, 1890, by the Edison Co. As a nurse, it's a thrill for me to hear Florence: "When I am no longer even a memory, just a name, I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life." As a nurse during the Crimean War, Florence faced unimaginable hardships. Today's nurses are up against 21st century hardships,...

Poll Reveals Who's Most Vaccine-Hesitant in America and Why

Apr 29, 2021

THURSDAY, April 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. resistance to getting a COVID-19 vaccine is slowly diminishing, a new online survey finds, but it still exists and at especially rates in some blue-collar jobs. For adults under age 65 who are hesitant, reluctance is mainly driven by concerns about safety, side effects and distrust in government, the poll found. It's also largely linked to people's line of work....

Nurse offers to help vaccinate others at Mall of America

Apr 27, 2021

Caring for others is a calling for Good Samaritan Society nursing and clinical services consultant Karis Gust, R.N. “That’s what nurses do, man,” Gust says. It’s also why, bright and early, Gust is opening the door to yet another opportunity to make her life count. “I want to try and do my part to help vaccinate in my home state,” Gust says. Drive to serve A Luverne, Minnesota,...

Future nurses, doctors want lessons from pandemic to create better health-care system

Apr 27, 2021

Sang Hee Baek started nursing school at the University of Toronto last fall as the second wave of the pandemic was putting health-care staff in parts of the country through an endurance test, making her wonder if she’d made the right career choice. Nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and others working with COVID-19 patients were becoming physically and mentally exhausted as some hospitals filled up, deaths climbed...

Tips to make National Nurses Day meaningful and memorable

Apr 22, 2021

As National Nurses Day approaches, many friends, families and employers plan activities and gifts to recognize the nurses in their lives. Is it possible to show enough gratitude for all that nurses do? Each year, one week in May is devoted to honoring nurses, and in 2021, Nurses Week is May 6-12, with National Nurses Day falling on the first day. How can anyone adequately show sincere appreciation for a workforce...

Skills Needed For A Career In Nursing

Apr 22, 2021

Many people have aspirations of a career in nursing, but not everyone has what it takes, particularly when it comes to leadership positions. Nursing is one of the most physically and mentally demanding roles that there is, plus you will be dealing with sickness, injury, and even death on a daily basis, so it is certainly not something that everyone can manage. Nursing can be one of the most rewarding lines of work that there is and...

Veterinarians, teachers, and students are stepping up to form America’s volunteer vaccinator workforce

Apr 19, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, Ellen Wormser’s work as a nurse-midwife for Fair Haven Community Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Connecticut, changed significantly. Gone were the sort of family scenes that Wormser said she was accustomed to seeing in delivery rooms before COVID-19, when women giving birth often had a number of people cheering them on. Wormser said she saw many of her colleagues...

Narcan training program offers proactive approach to stopping opioid overdoses

Apr 14, 2021

Once per month, at the corner of Broadway and Fourth Street SE, Winona State University-Rochester nursing students hand out new leases on life in the form of a syringe. It holds the drug naloxone, better known as Narcan — the overdose-stopper. Prof. Amber Fiedler, an assistant nursing professor at WSU-R, has spearheaded the “Save a Life: Prevent Opioid Overdose” program, which runs every second Thursday of the...

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