Nursing News

A father has today written to the Minister of Health complaining about the treatment of his pregnant wife and how after their baby son died he had to search through 40 dead babies to find his child at Johannesburg's Coronation Hospital.

The Saskatchewan unions representing health-care workers in areas such as special care aides, licensed practical nurses, food service, housekeeping and maintenance staff have submitted a counter-offer to their employers.

Every week, patients at Miami Children's Hospital get a visit from a foot-tall therapist who doesn't make them exercise or ask them how they feel.

The 200 staff laid off Friday at three seniors care homes in Coquitlam, Victoria, and Nanaimo have their jobs back.

Dirty: When inspectors visited the Basildon Hospital in Essex they found serious breaches in hygiene standards Action will be taken against an NHS trust after inspectors found blood-splattered equipment and an unusually high death rate among patients.

A national debate is needed on what health services should be provided in the future and how they will be paid for, the president of the Canadian Medical Association said Wednesday.

It was a personal experience that first exposed Dr. Christine Cofer to palliative medicine.

A new Ugandan study adds to a growing body of evidence that providing home-based antiretroviral care in low-income settings can be as effective as facility-based interventions.

Every Tuesday, patients at Miami Children's Hospital get a visit from a foot-tall therapist who doesn't make them exercise or ask them how they feel.

Eastern Ontario's health-planning network has stepped in with $1.7 million in emergency funding for the region's home-care agency to get dying patients out of hospital and back home.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Sexual Health / STDs ; Women's Health / Gynecology ; Public Health Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST The New York Times reports on a Lancet study that found treating Ugandan HIV patients at home is cheaper and just as effective as treating them in a clinic.

In a dramatic victory for the growing national movement of registered nurses, more than 300 RNs at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park have become the first Kansas RNs to join with their colleagues around the nation, by voting overwhelmingly to align with Nurses United, the local arm of National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses ...

Responding to today's publication of the Boorman review into Health and Wellbeing of the NHS workforce, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing welcomed better preventative measures to improve the health and wellbeing of NHS staff.

THE increasing need for nursing care in West Sussex County Council care homes could result in a huge bill to meet ensuing extra fire regulations, it has been revealed.

A local nurses union has filed a lawsuit to put a stop to mandatory vaccinations after they claimed they are feeling pressured to get the swine flu vaccine, 10News reported.

QI often read in my newspaper or hear on television about clinical trials for different diseases.

They traveled hundreds of miles across the country stuffed in plastic! Thanks to a truck driver, three little kittens are nursing their way back to health! Monday morning Alan Ketchum stopped in Cleveland to drop off his cargo and realized it was meowing.

Dr. McDaniel has also named Anthony Gallman as cosmetology instructor, Larry Jarrett as aviation maintenance instructor, Lura Sheppard as GED chief examiner, Lee Ann Williams as practical nursing instructor and Denise Wittman as medical business administrative technology instructor.

Nearly two weeks ago, an H1N1 virus, or swine flu, vaccination clinic in Rutland at College of St.

Has all the H1N1 flu talk got you buying Purell by the gallon and wishing you could live in a bubble for the next few months? Well, relax.