Last Updated: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | 8:36 AM NT
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Staff shortages forced the largest hospital in Newfoundland and Labrador to close one of its emergency units this weekend, and a nurses union official says the situation is becoming critical.

The Health Sciences Centre in St. John's closed one of three emergency units on Saturday night. Patients were diverted to another city hospital.

Nursing shortages have been pronounced this summer at hospitals across the province, with some institutions cancelling or strictly limiting vacation times.

Debbie Forward, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses' Union, says it is only a matter of time before patient care is affected.

"It's my understanding it was the worst night they've had at [that] emergency room for several years," Forward said Tuesday.

"They have to do more with less staff.… It's just a disaster waiting to happen," she said.


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By Cheeko Ruiz
Sunday, July 29, 2007

A Filipino-American has been named one of the 10 Best Nurse Leaders of the United States, an honor that Los Angeles-based senior nurse Lily Maniquiz Lara finds unparalleled.

Lara, nurse manager of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System’s Nursing Home Care Unit 213-2, won the 2006 ADVANCE for Nurses Journal’s Best Nurse Leader award. Vital to Lara’s winning was the successful implementation of a program that she created for the reduction of patient fall incidents. This program has been adopted as model for other fall prevention programs.

“I was challenged by my senior leadership team to address the increasing patient fall incidents in our unit. What I did was, together with my multi-disciplinary staff, implement specific changes that became a four-pronged approach to reduce patient falls,” Lara shared in an e-mail to The STAR.

The approach included hourly safety checks, assessment, communication with and assistance to patients.

Lara’s program was initially met with resistance by nursing assistants who felt the extra duties would stress an already heavy workload. But being a true leader, Lara not only gave orders but personally went on rounds with her staff, in the process showing them how the new procedure could benefit patients.

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By Jerome Aning
Inquirer
Last updated 07:03pm (Mla time) 07/24/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- With only about half of the 78,000 nursing examinees projected to pass, the Department of Labor and Employment is formulating a new policy to allow the "flunkers" in the state-administered nursing licensure examinees last June to continue practicing their profession as "practical nurses."

Labor Secretary Arturo Brion said the department was expecting only about 40,000 of the 78,000 examinees -- including the re-takers of the leakage-marred 2006 exam -- to pass the test.

"We're anticipating that many of them (flunkers) will do re-take so we think that one fall-back position is to have them licensed as practical nurses. This is assuming that there are some who would not do the re-take," Brion explained to reporters.

The labor official noted that there remained a high demand for practical or vocational nurses in hospitals and clinics both here and abroad.

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MANILA - Filipino nurses are expected to seek work in the United States in droves once an international test center for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) is established in Manila next month. But even ahead of that, according to the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, some 10,000 Filipino nurses have taken the exam abroad in the last six months in the hope of finding employment in America.

TUCP spokesperson Alex Aguilar said that the establishment of the "home ground" testing facility is a positive development for Filipino nurses. "In the past, Filipino nursing graduates had to travel abroad to take the NCLEX, and this created accompanying disadvantages and pressures, the foremost of which is financial," he said in a statement.

The NCLEX is the final step in the nurse eligibility process in the US.

Aguilar pointed out that before the US National Council of State Boards of Nursing Inc. (NCSBN) allowed the administration of the NCLEX in Manila, Filipino nurses had to go abroad and take the test in the United States, or in international test centers in American Samoa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the Virgin Islands.

"India has multiple NCLEX test centers. This is why Indian nursing graduates find it easier to pass the test and enter the US nursing profession," Aguilar said, adding that the difficulties that Filipino nurses have had to undergo to take the exams resulted in a passing rate of only 50 percent.

He said a total of 9,944 Filipino nurses took the NCLEX in the testing centers abroad from January to June. The number was 62 percent higher than the 6,171 who took the exams during the same period last year.

The Philippines had the largest number of nurses taking the NCLEX during the first half of 2007, followed by India with 2,732 examinees; South Korea, 1,022; Canada, 414; and Cuba, 340.

TUCP has been advocating the deployment of "surplus" nurses abroad "to take their skills to wherever these will get the greatest reward."

The TUCP said that the country's more than 400 nursing schools currently have a total of 632,108 students compared to 486,233 last year.

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