Nursing News

After a nurse phoned John Harrison to tell him his partner had lost her battle with cancer, he says he went to the hospital to say goodbye - and discovered she was not dead.

Parish nurse Paula Bartels has the perfect teaching opportunity. Elementary-age students are just finishing their breakfast at First Lutheran Church on a recent Sunday when she holds up a graphic picture of what happens when you ingest too much sugar and don't brush your teeth.

THE Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals have received their highest ever temporary staffing bill - despite repeated efforts to slash spening in this area.

We may soon be able to obtain easy and early diagnoses of diseases by smell. This week researchers found one odour-sniffing machine was as good as a mammogram at detecting breast cancer - and many other devices capable of spotting other diseases may be on the way.

Dr. Terry Rabinowitz, back to camera, talks with nurse Leslie Orelup at Helen Porter Nursing Home on in Burlington, Vt.

More than 55 years ago, Carlene Dunn put on her starched nursing uniform topped with cap, bib and apron to care for patients in a Massachusetts hospital.

The paramedics wheel out a stretcher carrying a man, 73, strapped to a hard board, a precaution in case his spine is fractured.

To mark International Women's Day, we talked to some of the most influential women in Redbridge and asked what challenges they have overcome and what women still have to face.

One nursing home out of four surveyed, and one assisted living facility out of three surveyed in Washington County received above-average marks from residents in the state's 2013 Long-term Care Resident Satisfaction Survey.

A NEW care plan will be trialled in Dudley borough to allow more people with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses to spend their final days at home.

Former Tennessee football star and coach Johnny Majors is in stable condition at the University of Tennessee Medical Center after a heart valve procedure.

Paramedics from four states have gathered in Sioux City for an annual conference that focuses on the skills needed to keep patients alive until they can reach a hospital.

Care home and care support costs in Kirklees are set to rise together as Kirklees Council discuss new proposals on Tuesday.

NHS England wanted to close Basildon Hospital's Hyper Acute Stroke Unit and instead send patients to Southend Hospital for vital stroke treatment.

EAST Lancashire's hospitals have offered 38 jobs to nurses from Portugal and Italy, in a bid to plug the remaining gaps in their work-force.

PARENTS Gordon and Julia Loy have complained to hospital bosses after the maternity ward where their baby was born was like a "building site".

There can be 'no compromise' on the need for mandated minimum nursing levels in Welsh hopsitals, the Royal College of Nursing has said.

President of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals Mari Cordes says they "are not happy about it, in particular how it was handled."

The bill's champion, Rep. Cary Pigman, is an emergency room physician who has supervised nurse practitioners for most of his career.

Jeremy Hunt has rejected a bid to stop the downgrading of Dewsbury's A&E department - despite years of campaigning by residents and The Reporter.