The New York State Nurses Association gathered its 37,000 members to remind them to wear medical masks; the mask will efficiently defend them from swine flu. According to scientists, nurses with close contact to flu patients must wear an N95 respirator.

Registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses in Texas hospitals are no longer required to work overtime. The law took effect last Tuesday that made Texas the 15th state to ban the practice of forcing nurses to work more than 12 hours. Fernando Losada, Director of the National Nurses Organizing Committee, said "It's very, very important for patient safety in Austin, Texas". It was implemented thru a group which was a part of the California Nurses Association, a union which upholds legislators for the law.

MSU's College of Nursing and Hope College establish a partnership to help bring more nursing doctoral candidates to the university. Their aim is to alleviate the deficiency of nursing faculty across the country. There are 2 spots being guaranteed by MSU: the implementation of its fast-track doctoral program and the accelerated program to qualified graduates with bachelor’s degrees from Hope College's Department of Nursing.

Since 1996, the Dunham Fund was established by the late Aurora businessman and philanthropist John C. Dunham. The fund was launched to sustain individuals, non-profit or charitable groups reside in Aurora area. A medical education fund was allocated by Aurora-based Dunham Fund to boost local health care. This is an investment in nursing education and in the community as a whole. To be able to utilize the fund, the Aurora-based foundation is searching for more nursing students to complete their educations. Jodie Beverage, a single mother recently resigned from her manufacturing job to work as a nurse. With several degrees and with aid of the scholarship and other funding, Beverage is now the CI of Rush-Copley Medical Center OR.  The fund and a consortium of nine local groups had announced last week the amount of $750,000 for the scholarship program in 2 years. This will help help nurses enhance their education and use their skills in the Aurora area.