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Nurse retires after 37 years

After 37 years of sterling service Jane Mason has retired from Stamford Hospital to enjoy some well-earned leisure time.
Senior staff nurse Jane, 55, wants to pick up some clubs and take up golf, as well as try to learn a few moves on the dance floor.Jane, who has also worked as a ward manager at the hospital, says she has enjoyed her time, though admits things have changed over the years."Work has changed since I started here as a nurse. You now have new technology in place, for example," she said. "In the past we used to do much more major surgery than we do at the hospital now." Jane, born in Bainton near Tallington and now living in Toft, says while looking forward to her retirement she will miss the staff and patients.

Travel Nurse Career Option For The Restless Spirit.

A serious nursing shortage meets a qualified professional that just doesn't want to get tied down in one place for too long. Put together this wandering soul and a temporary position in a hospital and you have a travel nurse. There is a serious shortage of nurses in this country. Travel nursing started as a solution to seasonal population growth in Sunbelt states. A solution was to recruit nurses to come on board for a fixed period of time until the part-time seasonal citizens returned to their permanent homes for the summer. It was a beautiful, mutually beneficial arrangement. Hospitals could hire nurse for about 13 weeks to fill a temporary need without adding permanent staff.

Aims partners with Fort Lupton schools

Aims Community College and the RE-8 School District have partnered to allow Fort Lupton High School students to take college classes this fall. Students will be able to take classes in automotive technology, carpentry, certified nurse aide, horticulture/landscape and possibly in Welding. The automotive technology, carpentry and certified nurse aide courses will be taught at Aims, while the horticulture/landscape program will use the high school’s greenhouse, where there is an existing agriculture program. The schools are studying the feasibility of adding a Welding program at the high school, as well, the release reports.

Nurse plans medical office

A proposal to build a three-story building into a hillside in northeast Phoenix could offer a one-stop shop for medical care. Theresa Lungwitz, a registered nurse who heads the Health Resource Center in Phoenix, plans to build a $6 million facility northwest of Cave Creek and Marco Polo roads, south of Beardsley Road. The 13,000-square-foot building would include a family medical practice, inpatient hospice care and urgent care services. The Health Resource Center operates out of about a 5,000-square-foot building at 2423 W. Dunlap Road. Lungwitz leases the site.

A nurse and a writer

Shubhada Sakurikar presenting a copy of her book "Florence Nightingale" to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Medical nurse by profession and writer by choice, Shubhada Sakurikar isn't planning a career move any time soon. This graduate from the prestigious Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing in the Capital has worked in some of the best hospitals around the world including Texas Medical Centre at Houston in the U.S. and received the appellate of Julita Sotejo Chair of Cardiovascular Nursing from the President of India.

School honors health student

Nursing is a career Melissa M. Gorneault knew she wanted to enter before enrolling in the Allied Health Program at Westfield Vocational-Technical High School. Now, she is headed to Springfield Technical Community College for two years and then to American International College to complete courses necessary to become a registered nurse. "I like to help people," the 17-year-old high school senior said last week after receiving a certificate as a certified nurse assistant. "And I want to know that I made a difference in someone's life."

Westfield Vocational-Technical High School held its first-ever Pinning Ceremony to honor the latest graduates of its Allied Health Program. The program has been offered to high school students for the past 25 years. Completion of the program provides certification as a nurse assistant, instructors Maureen Baillargeon and Joseph F. Barako said. The program is exploratory and provides an introduction into all aspects of the health care profession, they said.

The private sector help overcome shortages in nursing

In late 2001, more than 110,000 nurses were needed to fill vacant positions nationwide. This was the worst nurse shortage in the history of the U.S. Just over five years later, more than 500,000 men and women have entered the nursing profession with the help of Johnson & Johnson. However, much still remains to be done to stave off a long-term health care crisis. The waves of aging baby-boomers, retiring nurses and a critical shortage of nursing faculty still lead the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to forecast 1 million nurse staffing vacancies by 2020.

Five years ago, Johnson & Johnson launched the Campaign for Nursing's Future to improve the overall image of the nursing profession and to recruit new nurses and nurse educators. The nursing campaign has built many partnerships, and is cited as a major success story in the growing turn-around in nurse staffing.

Faces Critical Nurse Shortage

The demand for nurses is expected to outstrip the number coming out of nurse schools in the coming years, as some 80 million baby-boomers near retirement age. Nursing educators are on average even older than their RN colleagues, and half of them are expected to retire within the decade. At Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Jean Cabral, 58, has been an acute care nurse practitioner for more than 30 years. Last year, however, she injured her shoulder while trying to lift a patient. Cabral has decided to try teaching. But recently she's had to take a 25 percent pay cut and isn't sure she will continue. Nurse who get a higher degree can make a lot more money nursing than they can teaching. They are also choosing other higher paying jobs in biotech, insurance and the pharmaceutical industry.

Nurse booked on charge

A Dexter woman has been booked on charges that stem from stealing pain medication from a patient at the nurse nursing home where she was employed as director of nursing. Ceceli Shannon Freed, 34, turned herself in to authorities Monday and was charged with stealing a controlled substance. Freed posted bond, which was set at $20,000, and was released. The charge is the result of an investigation by the Dexter Police Department, which began Feb. 11 after an unattended death was reported at Freed’s residence in the 1400 block of Susan Street. An autopsy found that Chad Freed, Ceceli’s husband, had “died as a result of mixed drug intoxication.”