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Nursing Shortage Eases With Recession's Help
"The nation"s deep recession is helping to alleviate the decade-long nursing shortage, as workers who had left the field in better times are returning in droves," the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper quotes a study, one of six papers on the nursing workforce published today in the journal Health Affairs, that found "nearly a quarter-million nurses entered the work force in 2007-08, an 18% surge that was the largest two-year increase in at least three decades." Many of them had left nursing, but "re-entered the work force to compensate for a spouse"s lost income or health benefits, the study said." The increase is "particularly remarkable at a time when the U.S. economy has shed more than six million jobs, helping to solidify the profession"s "recession-proof" image." The study found that the surge in new nurses is due to "efforts to expand nursing schools, attract more young people into the field and improve working conditions," along with an increase in the number of foreign-born nurses.
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National Community Pharmacists Association's Statement On Medicare Part D Cost-Savings Plan
The nation"s drugmakers have pledged tens of billions of dollars to reduce seniors" out of pocket Medicare Part D drug costs, President Barack Obama announced today. In response, National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Executive Vice President and CEO Bruce T. Roberts, RPh, issued the following statement:
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AcelRx Announces Perfect Performance Of Handheld Component Of ARX-01 Sufentanil NanoTab PCA System In A Phase 2 Study
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced positive results from its first Phase 2 clinical study evaluating the functionality of the handheld device component of its ARX-01 Sufentanil NanoTab(TM) PCA System for management of acute post-operative pain in patients requiring opioid analgesia during hospitalization. Patients reliably self-administered sufentanil NanoTabs repeatedly over the 12-hour study without any ARX-01 System failures or dosing errors of any kind.
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Pharmacy Preregistration Training Reviewed In First National Survey

Preregistration trainees and tutors in England, Scotland and Wales will be asked to take part in the first ever national pilot survey on pharmacy preregistration training standards, this summer. The project is a collaboration between the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) and the University of Keele. Funded by the Department of Health, the surveys are part of a programme of work informing the transition of regulation to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), the new regulator for pharmacy. Surveys of trainees and trainers in medicine have been conducted by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) for several years but this is the first time a survey of this kind has been undertaken nationally in pharmacy. The findings are being used to measure the extent to which the standards for training are met in practice, and to understand where preregistration trainees and tutors have further needs for support and development. RPSGB Head of Research and Development, Sue Ambler, said; "This is an important pilot as it is the model of a potential future annual national survey of preregistration trainees and tutors to be conducted once the GPhC is established in 2010. "These results along with the final piloted questionnaires will be presented to and approved by the Council of the GPhC when it launches its new standards for education and training early in 2010. It is anticipated that, as in medicine, the regulator will collect and analyse data routinely to monitor implementation of its standards." A team at Keele University, led by Professor Alison Blenkinsopp, is conducting the online survey and each participant will receive an access code for it. Trainers and tutors in Yorkshire and Humber, West Midlands, London, and South East England along with those in Wales and Scotland are being asked to participate during July, once this year"s preregistration examination has been completed. The questionnaires have been developed with input from community, hospital, industrial and academic pharmacy, the British Pharmaceutical Students" Association and patient representatives. A report into the findings of the survey will be completed by the end of this year and recommendations will be made for future surveys. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain


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