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Nationwide Shortage Of Nurses Hits Local Hospital In Specialty Health Care Departments
Friday, January 14, 2011
The United States is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is projected to intensify as aging baby boomers have greater need for health care. A study in The Journal of The American Medical Association says the U.S. will experience a 20% shortage in the number of registered nurses by the year 2020. This translates into a need for 400,000 RN’s nationwide.
Missoula’s Community Medical Center says its shortage is confined to specialties like cardiology and pediatrics. The hospital says it’s been able to attract and keep other nurses because it offers training programs and hands-on experience for young nurses.
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MSU College of Nursing thrives in Great Falls
Monday, December 21, 2009
A few weeks before graduation, all the seniors in the Montana State University nursing program in Great Falls got to practice their skills in a simulated clinic.
They had to start IVs, give vaccinations and take care of injured patients, while juggling phone calls to set up appointments, dealing with pharmacies and getting results from the lab.
It was designed to be a realistic taste of what they will face once they take jobs as registered nurses, said nursing adjunct assistant professor Lis Lincoln.
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Nurses set for union ballot
Friday, December 18, 2009
Almost 500 nurses will be eligible to vote in a union election next month at St. Vincent Healthcare.
Registered nurses and advanced practice nurses who work at the hospital’s main downtown facility will decide whether to join the Montana Nurses Association.
The election will be held Jan. 4-5 and will be open to 467 nurses, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled.
“The nurses with whom we work are feeling excited and positive, and our numbers look great,” said Amy Hauschild, an MNA labor relations specialist. “They have shown incredible resolve and are making excellent progress toward their goal.”
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MSU nursing professor wins grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Bozeman—Sandra Kuntz, an assistant professor in Montana State University’s College of Nursing, has won a $350,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to look at exposure to methylmercury in women of childbearing age on Montana’s Fort Peck Reservation.
The project replicates studies done on the Flathead reservation. Kuntz is one of just 15 nurse educators from around the country this year to receive the three year Nurse Faculty Scholar award. It is given to junior faculty who show outstanding promise as future leaders in academic nursing. The grant period began in September.
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Billings nurses seek to vote on unionization
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A successful union vote last month at the Miles City hospital could help employees at a sister facility in Billings unionize.
Registered nurses at St. Vincent Healthcare think they have enough support to join the Montana Nurses Association, a union that represents about 15 percent of the state’s 15,000 nurses.
Almost 60 percent of eligible nurses at St. Vincent have signed cards asking for a union vote, said Curt Jensen, an emergency department nurse who has led organizing efforts.
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MSU receives $800,000 grant to train mental health nurse practitioners
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Montana State University’s College of Nursing has received a three-year, $814,021 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to prepare nurses to be family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners.
The new distance-based graduate option has been developed to shore up a shortage of primary mental health care providers across Montana, according to Patricia Holkup, who directs the program.
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MSU nursing professor developing program to help military moms
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
When Valerie Roseberry gave birth to her second daughter, she said she felt like she was in a fog, and she worried she wouldn’t be able to hold her baby without dropping her.
“I couldn’t get my arms to work right,” said Roseberry, whose husband serves in the military. “I just felt off. I didn’t enjoy life the way I should.”
This feeling of fogginess was in stark contrast to her experience with her first daughter’s birth, Roseberry said, when she felt excited, euphoric and empowered.
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Havre part of statewide health care discussion
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Havre residents joined some 350 other Montanans in a video conference Monday to talk about health care reform. Montana Change that Works, a grassroots organization working to push health care reform, put together the meeting in some 12 communities in Montana, with eight others joining Havre in the video hookup. State Sen. John Breuggeman, R-Polson, introduced and oversaw the teleconference from Helena.
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Doctors, hospital and clinic settle case out of court
Monday, June 22, 2009
An unexpected settlement was reached Friday in a civil trial involving local doctors, the Butte hospital and a former health clinic — just three days into testimony.
The trial was expected to take three weeks.
Lawyers for St. James Healthcare and two local physicians agreed to the settlement with the proprietors of the former Gold Street Clinic Friday afternoon.
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Nursing Industry Defies Economic Hardships
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
As jobs evaporate like rain on hot pavement, one rare area that continues to witness growth is health care. The reason behind this is simple - America’s population is aging. By 2030, the number of people over 65 will increase at five times the rate of those under age 65, which means trained professionals are reaching the end of their working lives, just as the public demand for medical services is expanding.
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