This is a good blog By Paula Kriner and Psyche Pascual for Consumer Health Interactive that provides information on some important safety tips for nurses.

Discusses the following:

1. Needlesticks
2. Back injury
3. Workplace violence
4. Latex allergy

Hear it from an expert @  http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/nursetips#s4

Here are some useful and effective tips for nurses. Hopefully these can help you guys and serve as some reminders to do well in your hard but fulfilling jobs. Hope you’ll like them.

http://www.addtips.com/nursing-tips-nurses.htm

Watch out for more helpful tips in upcoming posts.

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According to American Nurses Association, RNs earn around $56,000 or may go up to as much as $90,000 for really hard working and ambitious nurses that would go for long hours work including night shifts, weekends and some even holidays, in big city hospitals.

 There is a need to provide attractive salaries for nurses who choose to work in schools and teach to be able to cater to the huge number of enrollees.

 Now for the meantime it is still an option for the US to accommodate foreign workers to bridge the gap while the nursing schools work on training more qualified registered nurses. Well, it’s not about foreign workers taking over American jobs but it’s more on providing the need of society especially in the health care sector.

(Based on a news in CNNMoney.com)

Based on actual survey on primary doctors’ salaries, it showed that nurse specialists are getting higher pay and benefits compared to primary care doctors. This is despite the shortage in the United States of primary care doctors.

According to Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a physician recruiting and consulting firm: In 2009, CRNAs, or the Certified Nurse Anesthetists were getting an average wage of $189,000 – a lot higher compared to that of primary care doctors who were getting just around $173,000. And it will maintain that same difference in 2010.

Why get high pay for being a Certified Nurse Anesthetist or CRNA?

Well, Certified Nurse Anesthetists are specialist nurses who had advance training and can act or perform similar practice with anesthesiologists, which is administering anesthesia to patients. The difference though is when CRNAs do the administering; it still falls under nursing practice while it falls under medicine practice when anesthesiologists do it.

Also the demand for Certified Nurse Anesthetists rose due to the increase of surgical procedures in the past years, though it has brought about some negative reaction from medical doctors and is considered a hindrance in encouraging medical students to choose to pursue primary care medicine to solve the shortage of primary care doctors. CRNAs could still proudly contest that in saying, that they are able to help keep the smooth running of hospital ORs by administering anesthesia to patients and keeping them safe and comfortable when undergoing surgery.

(Based on a news in CNNMoney.com)