Nursing News

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.

The Hattiesburg American reports Williams has served the nursing school for over 20 years as a teacher and administrator and dean.

Carmen Collado has laundered hospital linen in Madrid for 11 years. Now, almost half her colleagues have been fired and the 61-year-old grandmother is cleaning the same bed sheets, nurses' scrubs and towels as before for half the pay.

President and CEO of Bridgeport Hospital William Jennings, left, and University of Bridgeport President Neil Albert Salonen sign an agreement at UB to integrate the nursing program at the Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing into the University on Monday, April 21, 2014.

President and CEO of Bridgeport Hospital William Jennings, left, and University of Bridgeport President Neil Albert Salonen sign an agreement at UB to integrate the nursing program at the Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing into the University on Monday, April 21, 2014.

Acute Kidney Injury can go unnoticed by medical staff but "good basic care" would save those lives, according to a study.

About 70 percent of the nursing homes in Arkansas made a profit in the year that ended June 30, 2013, according to cost reports audited by the Arkansas Department of Human Services.

Hundreds of patients are still turning up at Ipswich Hospital's accident and emergency department every month, even though their ailments could be treated by a GP or the 111 service, a new report has revealed.

Nurses during their farewell to the Golan Heights last year. From left, Lucy Cirikiyasawa, Kuila Gavidi, Sereana Naidamu and Kalesi Tuipolotu at Nadi International Airport.

The University of Texas at Arlington has named Anne Bavier , who has held posts at top-ranked universities and at the National Institutes of Health , as the new dean of the College of Nursing.

The Jersey City Medical Center has once again been selected by the American Nurses Credentialing Center to receive the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence.

Fourteen doctors in Worcester County, half of them ophthalmologists and many of them billing for expensive drugs, received $11.2 million in Medicare payments during 2012, according to detailed data released this month by the federal government.

Young volunteers at the Sant Nirankari Mission in Napier Street, Barkerend , Bradford, celebrated Easter by taking chocolate eggs to children at Bradford Royal Infirmary .

Dozens of senior citizens have been evacuated from a personal care home in St. Vital today after the basement flooded.

Nine members of the Nurses League met in Winchester for coffee and a slice of cake and a chat with current student nurses to talk about their training in 1964.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association has said a more efficient system must be put in place by the Health Minister and the Health Service Executive for reporting adverse incidents or deaths within the mental health system.