Agency nursing in Australia: life as they see it--members of AfPP write on issues that concern or interest them.(IN THEIR OPINION) The Journal of Perioperative Practice (8/1/2009)
...travel to broaden my nursing knowledge. I always...country and working as an agency nurse. Working as an...working as a perioperative agency nurse is the vast array...of nursing but as an agency nurse education is not...granted. KEYWORDS ...

AGENCY: NURSING HOME ILLEGALLY FIRED WORKER; THE JAMESVILLE FACILITY PLANS TO CHALLENGE NLRB RULING AT FEB. 3 HEARING.(Business) The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) (12/10/2008)
...Mulder Staff writer A federal agency says Iroquois Nursing Home, in Jamesville, illegally...back pay. It also wants the nursing home to delete any reference...evidence from the union and the nursing home, and giving Iroquois an...

The NHS in Wales spent 15m [pounds sterling] on agency nursing staff during 2001-02, a 50 per cent increase on the previous year, the annual report of the National Audit Office shows.(Brief Article) Nursing Standard (5/28/2003)
The NHS in Wales spent 15m [pounds sterling] on agency nursing staff during 2001-02, a 50 per cent increase on the previous year, the annual report of the National Audit Office shows. In...

AGENCY IS NURSING CAREERS IN HEALTH HOPES FOR GRANT TO AID STUDENTS Post-Tribune (IN) (3/4/1991)
...Resources, a not- for-profit agency that trains people to be nursing assistants in nursing homes and hopes to launch...nursing home, hopes her agency can gain an additional grant...students who want to go to nursing school. ...

Licensing agency mismanaged nursing oversight Post-Tribune (IN) (11/13/2000)
...FROM PRINTED VERSIONThe state agency overseeing licensure of Indiana...vulnerable people. "I thought the nursing board was there to protect...issued by the State Board of Nursing to languish for months before...prepare written minutes of the nursing board's ...

Environmentally safe health care agencies: Nursing's responsibility, Nightingale's legacy.(Recent Publications by Vermont Nurses)(Florence Nightingale)(Brief article) Vermont Nurse Connection (11/1/2007)
...environmental concerns into nursing practice. It recommends specific...of an environmental focus in nursing, discusses ways to manage...pollution, and recommends specific nursing actions to promote a healthy...environment within our health care agencies. ...

Probe faults Rhode Island agency, nursing home in 87-year-old's decline. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (9/21/2004)
...health-care providers at a Providence nursing home. It said the "system failed" 87...a system that gives poor-performing nursing homes numerous chances to stay open for...Instead the health-care providers, nursing homes and regulators and the process of...

CA agencies fighting nursing shortage. Homecare Quality Management (4/1/2000)
CA agencies fighting nursing shortage Dearth of RNs, LVNs to widen...A study conducted by the California Nursing Work Force Initiative predicts continued...experience for home care nurses at licensed agencies, while other employers such as hospitals...

STATE AGENCY PROBES NURSING HOME DEATH.(MAIN) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (2/5/2002)
...year-old woman at the Albany County Nursing Home several years ago, on the heels...Department investigation last month found nursing home residents were endangered by inadequate...the facility's administrator. Neither nursing home nor state Health Department officials...