Nursing News

A care home nurse has been cautioned after threatening to cut the daughter of a quadriplegic patient "into little pieces".

The Paediatric Acute Response Team treats and monitors under 18s who have illnesses including fevers, diarrhoea and urinary tract infections.

After meeting ten years ago at a pub in Grimsby, Eve Rennie and Lorretta Leggat, who live in Bath Road, Stroud, finally tied the knot.

Nova Scotia's largest health authority says it has scheduled meetings with about 150 unionized registered nurses to discuss their part in a recent illegal strike.

In this photograph, submitted on April 7, TakeCare representatives present the check to UOG officials and nursing students.

MORE than 80 people in Worcestershire with irregular heart rates have benefitted from a nurse-led service which launched in September last year.

End stage kidney disease is a global public health problem with an estimated 2.4 million patients on dialysis.

For close to 30 years, the inpatient psychiatric ward at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune lacked security and an environment conducive to healing.

Bolton Council cabinet members raised no objections to closing intermediate and respite care beds at Winifred Kettle Community Care Centre today.

More money must be ploughed into the NHS or there could be "significant cuts to services", a health charity has warned.

If you or someone you care about is among the more than 40 million Americans over age 65 or the estimated 8,000 more who reach that age every day a few facts about aging and caring for the aged may be good to know.

Pharmacists may be better at managing the recovery of stroke patients compared to trained nurses, according to a new study that could help improve care for the nearly one million Americans who suffer an attack each year.

MAYWOOD, Ill. - For a special group of Loyola University Chicago nursing students, 1964 was a year of remarkable transformation.

Dave Prentis said all Unison's resources will be mobilised in any fight against the Government's decision not to agree to an across-the-board 1% wage rise in the NHS Nurses and doctors have been urged to stand "shoulder-to-shoulder" with other health workers in a campaign over pay amid the threat of industrial action.

Half of nurses are working through breaks or beyond their shift, revealing a health service under "severe strain", a new report has warned.

The speakers discussed the importance of raising money and participating in events, such as Relay For Life, sponsored by the American Cancer Society.

Nursing homes traditionally have run more like hospitals than homes, but a growing number around Topeka are changing business as usual.

NURSES would screen for bowel cancer and administer low-grade anaesthetics under a radical plan to save public hospitals $430 million a year.

SPANISH FORT, Alabama - From the time she volunteered as a young nurse during World War II to when she traveled to Africa with the Peace Corps in her late 70s, Janice Feagin Britton led an adventurous and interesting life, one underscored by faith.

As hundreds of thousands of diabetics get health coverage under the federal law, insurance companies are aggressively targeting this glut of new patients.