Dr Rant (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
"Which of you fuckers works for the Department of Health?" - Flo Nighty, a London Teaching Hospital, circa 2008 May 12th is Nurses Day (thank's to life in the NHS for pointing this out - it really must be being kept low key, as I had forgotten). The RCN has some information on their website . Personally, I think the Nurses should be shouting about it from the roof-tops....
STLtoday.com Top News Headlines (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Arnold — Nicole Krafve, registered nurse and Jefferson County Health Department nutritionist, will offer a program on the basics of diabetes, healthy food choices, and the benefits of being physically active. The program is at 6:30 p.m. May 21 at the Arnold branch of the Jefferson County Library at 1701 Missouri State Road. Seating is limited; call 636-296-5171 to register.
Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Cardboard nurses are asking patients and visitors to wash their hands at hospital wards in Lincolnshire. The new cut-out nurses contain a recorded message activated by movement as people walk past. The message asks people to clean their hands on arrival and before leaving the hospital wards. The nurses will be placed at Lincoln County Hospital, Boston's Pilgrim Hospital, Grantham...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
By Cochran, Diane Registered nurses at St. Vincent Healthcare who are trying to join a collective bargaining unit are in for a knockdown, drag-out fight with their employer, a union official said. Citing concerns about patient safety and working conditions, 180 St.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
By Gillette, Becky The numbers are sobering. It is estimated that by 2025, there will be a shortage of 500,000 nurses in the U.S.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
By Cochran, Diane Joining a union will give registered nurses at St. Vincent Healthcare an equal place at the table with administrators who have repeatedly ignored their concerns about safety for workers and patients inside the hospital. That's according to an RN who works at St.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
By Anonymous Four nurses from Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., will provide free health screenings in St. Bernard Parish from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 22. The health clinic will be at Community Center of St Bernard, 1107 LeBeau St., in Arabi.
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The paper discusses the issue on why nurses do not use more research in their practice. Nursing should be a research-based due to its technicalities and that research should underpin nursing practice, nursing education and management. Research is important to be integrated in nursing practices to improve the quality of...
Life in the NHS (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
In the UK we don't tend to have a whole week celebrating nurses and nursing, but rather just the day. That day is today the birthday of Florence Nightingale, and let us just say this is pretty low key. Professions go through different patches in terms of popularity and whether those who are part of [...]
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A medical helicopter dropped off a patient and then crashed shortly after it took off on its return flight to Madison, killing the surgeon, nurse and pilot on board, officials said Sunday.
usa today (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Nurse-zine Newsletter May 11, 2008 Issue# 272 280,268 members Nursing Forums | Nursing Articles | Nursing Education | Nursing Jobs and Resumes | Help In This Issue... Brian's Nursing Notes Most Popular Nursing Topics Latest Nursing Articles Latest Nursing News Poll : Nurses, would you go to work during a Pandemic? Sponsor - Drexel University Online degree Nurses move up with a Drexel University Online...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Nurses can offer help from afar Army veteran Eugene Rice, who is living on his own with emphysema, low blood pressure and the effects of several slight strokes, gives much of the credit for his well-being to his health care coordinator at the Perry Point VA Medical Center in Cecil County. He even thanks Dee Jones for helping him reach a milestone.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Amid an uncertain economy and worrisome unemployment numbers, there's a well-paying field begging for workers. Nurses are taking on an increasingly diverse role in health care, opening up new jobs in all kinds of settings, including community health, home care and hospitals.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Perhaps aside from the WNBA, it's hard to find a career as thoroughly dominated by women as nursing. According to the American Nurses Association, just 6% of nurses in the U.S. are men. Yet the disparity is declining.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
LIFE-size cardboard nurses are the latest tool in the battle against infection in hospitals, according to one NHS Trust. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is officially launching the use of the new "nurses" which play recorded messages telling people to clean their hands.
