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Every month Westways recognizes an outstanding healthcare professional from each one of our branch offices. Westways management and staff would like to congratulate the following individuals in becoming April 2011′s Nurse of the Month. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication.

Orange – Heidi K.

Long Beach – Glenda T.

San Diego – Qutaiba B.

San Bernardino – Sarah R.

Bakersfield – John G.

Las Vegas, NV – Dwight E.

Albuquerque, NM – Brenda S.

Texas – Edna R.

What is a Nursing Registry?

The answer seems obvious if you are a nurse that works for a Nursing Registry, but what if you’ve never worked for a Nursing Registry and are unfamiliar with the terminology.

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Dr. Mark R. Chassin speaks at the Studer Group’s Eighth Annual Conference in Dallas, Tx about being able to have both health reform and quality of care.

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Isn’t it fascinating that we think of perseverance when we are so tempted to give up? One of the greatest pleasures in life is doing what people say you can’t. When things seem bleakest, you have to carry on succeeding. In these historically poor economic times we have a tendency to want to throw up our hands when a little more effort, a little more patience, would allow us to persevere.

It seems the hospital administrations have decided that the deep recession alleviated the decade-long nursing shortage, as workers who had left the field in better times returned in droves. Nearly a quarter-million nurses entered the work force in 2007-2008 according to a study released by the Journal of Health Affairs. About half of the increase during this period came from nurses over the age of 55. Now, we are starting to see dissatisfaction in the nursing workforce in the way of strikes and threatened strikes. All relating to hospital administrations taking away benefits, disregarding staffing ratios, imposing mandatory overtime, and floating nurses to areas they aren’t properly trained for.

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