Nursing News

From elementary school to high school, she has been able to count on a teacher, administrator or someone else to help her son Jonathan Mahmoud with his insulin shots when no school nurse was available -- the norm in California's budget-battered education system, where there's only one nurse for every 2,200 students.

Lib Dem MP Andrew George, who set up the meeting, said Dr Poulter contacted him less than 24 hours before to say he wanted it to go ahead without the nurses.

The University of South Florida College Of Nursing has received $2.1 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for a clinical trial involving cancer symptom management.

Speaking to KOCO Channel 5, she said all of the 30 patients survived, as did all the doctors and nurses.

The Traffic director has just announced he is retiring from filmmaking with his final film, Behind The Candelabra starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival and about to air on HBO in the US this week.

The son and daughters of St Minver farmer Thomas Anthony Wills, known as David, say they were told there would be a 5 per cent chance of their father not surviving the operation, yet he never recovered from surgery after weeks spent on a ventilator.

Botsford Hospital honored 19 nurses with the Nursing Excellence Award, given to highlight high-achieving nurses for their skill, compassion, and commitment to nursing.

A nurses' union has raised "extreme concerns" over plans to move all emergency orthopaedic surgery from Whitehaven to Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary.

Two senior students at Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing at Beebe Medical Center have earned the new Beebe Medical Staff Nursing Scholars scholarship.

When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child.As the floor shook ?like an earthquake' beneath her and ceiling tiles and insulation fell overhead, the 25-year-old huddled with four nurses, braving both the peak ... (more)

Hundreds of registered nurses moved from patient bedsides to the streets on Thursday morning to begin a strike against two San Jose hospitals affiliated with the Hospital Corporation of America.

UMass Memorial Medical Center and the union representing 1,100 nurses have reached a tentative contract agreement that staves off a scheduled strike.

'All of a sudden I could see daylight and the wall was gone': Mother relives giving birth as twister destroyed hospital around her Shayla Taylor, 25, was in the middle of labor on the upper floor of Moore Medical Center delivering her second child when the monstrous storm directly hit She was forced to brave both the peak contractions of childbirth ... (more)

Workers at University of California hospitals around the state are picketing for a second day over staffing and pension issues.

Nursing heroes were showered with flowers, tea and cake as a special thank you for the work they do caring for terminally ill patients in Barnet and Enfield.

And symptoms of malnutrition are frequently confused for natural signs of ageing, according to the report by a Canberra academic.

Andy Georgalas was watching live tornado coverage from his Moore, Okla., home when he realized that the destructive funnel cloud on television was spinning his way.

The Royal College of Nursing and Queen's Nursing Institute say the situation is adding to the pressure on hospitals.

The nonprofit organization opened the school in 2010 and graduated 40 students, largely to supply licensed practical nurses to its group of nursing homes.

A raft of mistakes at Tauranga Hospital led to the misdiagnosis of a patient who later died, the Health and Disability Commissioner has found.