The RN Shortage

The llhirsing Shortage Clondmies As Facnily Shortage Grows

O The main reasons for the lack of faculty to meet the demand for more nurses include the increased age of the current faculty and the declining number of years ieft to teach, expected increases in facuity retirements, less compensation for academic teaching than positions in clinical areas for master's-prepared nurses, and finaiiy, not enough master's and doctoral-prepared nurses to fiii the n...

The BCG Shortage

In 2014, I was on the Board of Directors of the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) when Merck announced having shortages of Tice strain Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG), a critical “drug” for treating intermediate and particularly high risk non-muscle invasive (NMI) urothelial cancer (UC) of the bladder, including carcinoma-in-situ (CIS) and high-grade (HG), stage Ta and T1 disease after transure...

The drug shortage crisis.

The RN to BSN Transition

Approximately 60% of registered nurses (RNs) still enter practice with an associate’s degree or diploma in nursing (ADN). Due to recommendations to change entry level to practice to the bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN), there are now more than 700 RN to BSN programs in the United States. The purpose of this qualitative systematic review was to understand more about what occurs when an RN retu...

NATION WIDE Rn AND Rn ATLAS FOR INDIA

Considering the epidemiological effect of radon on human beings, an attempt is made to make a nation-wide atlas of Rn and Rn for India. More than 5000 measurements have been carried out in 1500 dwellings across the country, India. The solid state nuclear track detectors were deployed for the measurement of indoor Rn, Rn and their progeny levels. The mean annual inhalation dose rate due to Rn, R...