New Jersey officials are considering allowing specialized nurses to sedate patients without any supervision from a doctor according to the Wall Street Journal. The health officials are considering this pish due to the decline in available physicians.  This has in turned angered many physicians in the state as they believe that it could place the [...]

Nursing has been called the oldest of arts and the youngest of professions (Donahue,1996). The history of nursing is synonymous with the history of woman. The connotations of the word nurse has changed over the course of history. The words nurse and nursing have many meanings. The word nursing itself is derived from the Latin [...]

The registered nurse workforce swelled to nearly 3.1 million, as of March 2008, up more than 5% since 2004, according to a newly released report from the Health Resources and Services Administration, a federal agency charged with improving access to healthcare for vulnerable populations. Published every four years, the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses [...]