Lack of teachers blamed for shortage of nurses
Hagerstown Morning Herald, MD
Cheryl Peterson, senior policy fellow of the American Nurses Association, said 1 million new nurses will be needed in the United States by 2012. …

Nova Scotia needs nurses
Mississauga News, Canada
Mississauga is one of the cities being targeted in the province of Nova Scotia's two-month marketing blitz to recruit nurses and other health care …

Student nurses march to Bhisho to demand paid posts
Dispatch Online, South Africa
The Student Nurses’ Organisation (SNO) said they needed the posts to pay their fees and support their families. SNO academic officer Zinziswa Rabe said this …

Nurses replace police doctors
Journal Live, UK
A TRAIL-BLAZING scheme which will see nurses replacing force doctors in carrying out medical work in police stations is being launched in County Durham next …

The code of ethics of the American Nursing Association is a complete list of the expected ethics code that all nurses that belong to the association must follow. It is not an option, it is the right thing to do. The ethics cover how patients should be treated, passing judgement based on ethnicity and more. Provision 1 of the ethics code covers just a few ways that nurses should practice including respect, relationships, the nature of a patient's health problem, and self-determination.

The American Nursing Association believes in total respect for all patients and their human dignity. Every person and individual has worth, dignity, and human rights that should be respected treating everyone the same.

In committing to holding responsible relationships includes with the patients and the staff. The relationship with the patient should be to take care of their needs and values and deliver nothing but the best for the patient. The patient might make a decision that the nurse disagrees with or doesn't religiously believe in, but patients have the right to make their own choices and any choices should not be judged or cause a nurse to change the way they take care of the patient. The respect and relationship for the patient should be the same for all patients. The relationships with the coworkers must be the same. Coworkers have a life outside of work that they live and it is no ones business to judge them. Respect all coworkers the same and decisions that they make as long as they are for the benefit of the patients.

The respect to dignity and the patient, according to the American Nursing Association, should not be judged based on the extent of a disease. A nurse has no right to judge the disabled, suffering, or the proximity of death. Just because a patient is in a coma doesn't mean that they are not priority. They will be treated the same as a person that is awake and alert.

The American Nursing Association takes pride in the types of members they have with them. They will not tolerate patients or coworkers being treated badly or indifferently and all nurses must commit to respecting the relationships they have.

If you are applying at a traveling nurses company for a labor and delivery job, then you must meet a certain skill set to be considered. Many of the skills include antepartum, labor assessment, pregnancy complications, and infant interventions after delivery, phlebotomy, pain management & anesthesia, post partum interventions, and interventions during delivery.

A traveling nurses company will insist that you have antepartum experience. This includes knowledge and experience of breathing and relaxation techniques, inserting a catheter, performing and understanding the importance of what you see when performing a sonogram. A labor assessment means that you can assess the mother and the fetus and see any complications, the fetal position, if the mother is really in labor, and understand the fetal heart rate.

A traveling nurse's company also wants you to be able to understand and be knowledgeable of complications. Complications might include fetal movement, cesarean, tubal litigation, and normal cardiac rhythms. You should also know about pulmonary artery catheters and all types of monitoring with the mother and baby.

Infant interventions after delivery include knowing how to properly do an apgar score, a newborn physical assessment, teaching the mother how to give her newborn a bath, take care of the circumcision area, breast feeding, how to resuscitate a baby, and more.

Post partum interventions assist the mother with taking care of herself after delivery of the baby. Showing the mother how to take care of herself is of the utmost importance because she has to be healthy enough to take care of her baby.

Pain management is another important skill that you must be experienced with if you are interested in working for a traveling nurse's company. This is because you must know how to give an epidural, how to properly position the patient, properly assess a patient's level of pain, coaching the patient, and more.

A traveling nurse's company wants to make sure that they are hiring nothing but the best. You should have the appropriate skills depending on your specialization as a nurse and you should be knowledgeable of the patients needs. Working in labor and delivery, you must know everything prior to delivery of the baby and after.