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Schumer Preparing Strong Public Plan Option
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the key Senate Finance Committee and advocate for a government-run health insurance plan, said yesterday he would abandon all other possible compromises in favor of immediately creating a public plan that "would operate on "a level playing field" with private insurers," CongressDaily reports. Other proposals have included a plan that would establish health insurance co-ops with government seed money or "trigger" the creation of a public plan only if private insurers fail to meet certain targets for containing costs and improving access.
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Changing Residences Associated With Increased Risk Of Suicidal Behavior Among Children
Danish children who move frequently appear to have an increased risk of attempted or completed suicide between ages 11 and 17, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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San Diego Needle Exchange Program Examined
KPBS profiled San Diego"s "only clean syringe exchange program," a mobile van that twice weekly provides injection drug users with clean needles in exchange for used ones. The program also offers HIV and Hepatitis C tests and gives referrals to drug treatment programs. According to KPBS, "The concept behind syringe exchange is simple: people are going to shoot drugs. It"s crucial to make sure they have access to clean equipment, so they don"t spread blood-borne infections." However, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is "adamantly opposed to the concept," and it is "illegal in San Diego for people to buy clean needles without a prescription," KPBS reports. In 2008, the privately-funded exchange program, which has the support of the mayor and the city council, collected more than 183,000 used syringes and handed out about 172,000 new ones (Goldberg, 7/7).
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Seeking Solutions To The Chronic Nursing Shortage In Canada And The US

The Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at The University of Western Ontario has announced a $2 million research chair to address issues surrounding the chronic shortage of registered nurses in Canada and the United States. Dr. Heather Laschinger, Ph.D., was named the first Arthur Labatt Family Nursing Research Chair in Human Re Optimization. A study by the Canadian Nurses Association found the country will be short 78,000 registered nurses (RNs) within two years, and the number is expected to grow to 113,000 by 2016. The American Nurses Association says the shortage in the US will be more than one million nurses by the end of this decade. The Arthur Labatt Family Nursing Research Chair in Human Re Optimization will lead a broad research agenda examining issues related to the education and retention of nurses and factors that contribute to their success in a variety of health care settings, and support related teaching initiatives. The Chair"s research will focus on the causes and consequences of the current professional nursing workforce shortage, with a view to optimizing health human res in nursing to ensure high quality health care. Laschinger says she"s thrilled to be selected for this new research chair. "The Chair will extend my ongoing research, which for the past 15 years has examined how best to empower nurses for excellence in professional practice in work environments that promote the health of both nurses and their patients," says the Associate Director, Nursing Research and Distinguished University Professor. "This will provide an opportunity to develop new directions for investigating ways to optimize nurses" scope of practice within current evolving interprofessional practice environments and to examine best educational practices that prepare new graduates for optimal role functioning in these challenging work settings." "Research excellence is critically important and I see this appointment as a way of advancing research in our strong School of Nursing. This Chair is focused in a timely, and critically important area for the Faculty and our society," says Jim Weese, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. "I congratulate Dr. Laschinger on being the inaugural Arthur Labatt Family Nursing Research Chair in Human Re Optimization and I know that the outcomes of her research will continue to make a difference in the area." The Research Chair is part of a $10 million gift from Arthur and Sonia Labatt announced last year. Kathy Wallis University of Western Ontario


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