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Some staff nurses overwhelmed by ballooning patient loads and more charts and medications to juggle are relieved to have the extra hands traveling nurses provide. Others harbor contempt for the higher wages travelers make – costing their hospitals millions – even as temporary nurses are less familiar with the facilities, processes, and patients.
Colleges, universities, and trade schools are ramping up nurse-related partnerships, scholarships, internships, and mentorships in hopes of meeting the workforce’s increasingly dire needs.
Deaths total 28 for the week, up from last week’s 20
Miranda Neff walked the Especially For You Race Againt Breast Cancer 5k for the first time when she was 14. Eleven years later, when she was 25, she walked it for the first time as a breast cancer survivor.
Mercy Hospital’s annual Especially For You Race Against Breast Cancer will take place Sunday, Oct. 9. The race includes a 5K run, a 5K walk, or a one-mile family fun walk.
Past week saw 1,853 new cases, 26 deaths
Program in 18 Iowa counties gives option to calling police
A month after an oversight board O
Abby Burchland experienced “overwhelming” support from Iowa and Michigan fans alike as her “Last Chemo” gained national attention during the Oct. 1 Iowa Wave.
The clinics provide free healthcare to uninsured and underinsured kids in Johnson and Washington counties
Responsibility in Bondurant death goes beyond direct staff, one says
The new numbers mean that cases are down for the fourth consecutive week.
Many of the remaining residents of such places have lived there for decades, leaving their families with wrenching choices when closures loom.
Two Iowa nursing home patients froze to death outside this past winter. A nurse at one home faces no criminal charges, but a worker at another faces a second-degree murder charge.
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