Nursing News

Nursing students and volunteers from the University of Southern Maine held a bone marrow registration drive to help an alumnus whose daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia.

Dr. Billy Oley talks with Dr. William George in the Beartooth Billings Clinic in Red Lodge, Mont.

Theresa Byrne, who worked at Godden Lodge Residential and Nursing Home, in Hart Road, was sacked following a string of errors between February and May 2012.

Health officials are worried about recent U.S. measles outbreaks that so far have caused more illnesses than at the same point of any year since 1996.

"Oh my goodness," declared Colleen Forrester, 29, a nurse dressed in green scrubs, who pointed to the windows.

Thursday morning there will be a bankruptcy hearing at the US District Court in Springfield.

POLITICAL hopefuls have criticised Basildon Council plans to build a new GP surgery inWickford - claiming it would do little to ease the town's GP crisis.

By The Associated Press news@abc6.com NEWPORT, R.I. _ Salve Regina University in Newport is starting a new graduate program in nursing with the help of a $1 million gift.

Arkansas U.S. Senator John Boozman is in stable condition and is still recovering from unexpected heart surgery prompted by a tear in his aorta, his office said Wednesday.

Extension Healthcare announced today that it has hired Jill Vavala, RN, MBA, as its Chief Nursing Officer.

Will Nikki Ferrell quit her nursing job for "Bachelor" Juan Pablo Galavis? According to US Weekly , Galavis has a proposal for his girlfriend, but it doesn't include an engagement ring.

Amedisys and its affiliates make up one of the nation's largest home health providers, operating in 37 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to a Justice Department news release.

The FDA has approved this drug, but across New England there's worry that the drug will only add fuel to the fire of the region's opiate addiction problem.

Nurses are decrying a plan to cut staff at the HealthAlliance Hospital Burbank campus, but hospital officials say it's time to move to a new model of care.

Two months of work and collaboration came to fruition Tuesday afternoon when the University of Memphis' Loewenberg School of Nursing officially signed a collaboration agreement with the Nrupur Institute of Nursing Science and Research in India.

The Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma in Durant and its parent company, Health Management Associates Inc., have agreed to pay $1,065,000 to the United States and $435,000 to the State of Oklahoma to resolve allegations that the hospital billed for unnecessary surgical procedures by a doctor at the hospital.

Care and treatment received at King's Mill Hospital is rated positively by patients, according to the national inpatient survey of 2013.

The university to offer flexible back-to-nursing courses, starting next month, to 'boost the confidence' of former carers to return to the profession Glyndwr University will introduce a flexible learning programme in June aimed at nurses hoping to return to work in the field.

Fast stroke treatment can start with a call from the ambulance to the hospital saying a stroke patient is on the way.

HEALTH commissioners have come under fire after deciding to invite 'profit-making' companies to bid for the GP out-of-hours contract in East Lancashire.