Nursing News

THE announcement that about 600,000 NHS staff in Worcestershire and across the country will receive only an incremental pay rise has come under fire.

Nurse Jane Pearce has been awarded a certificate from the Multiple Sclerosis Nurses International Certification Board, while Nona Toothill, Airedale's urology specialist, has been shortlisted for a national nursing award.

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed announced Friday that he's abandoning an attempt to place an initiative on the November state ballot that would have enabled governments in California to cut future pension benefits for current workers.

The bill would charge people who batter doctors, nurses, or other health workers with a felony punishable by up to 3 years behind bars.

A NURSE branded "incompetent and inexperienced" had been suspended from her job for numerous errors before taking care of a man who died as a result of a ventilator being switched off, an inquest heard.

A claim by the Royal College of Nursing that a "reckless policy" of job cuts has left the NHS with thousands fewer senior nursing posts, has been denied by Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The acute stroke unit, acute medical unit and Avon 3 are closed, but all other wards as well as Kidderminster Hospital and Redditch's Alexandra Hospital are now open as normal.

The school said Thursday the program offers advanced placement to registered nurses seeking a bachelor of science in nursing degree.

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"The hospital had a concern about the constant noise and vibration so they chose to go the implosion route," David Vinser of Vincer Construction explains.

Professor Sir Mike Richards, England's chief inspector of hospitals, is holding a listening evening to hear views on the trust as part of a radical new inspection process.

NEW patients are being turned away from the Great Western Hospital 's eye department as staff struggle with growing demand.

A 78-year-old Mississippi man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being mistakenly pronounced deceased, a coroner said.

A 78-year-old Mississippi man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being mistakenly pronounced deceased, a coroner said.

Trained to care for others, nurses have a tough go of it themselves at times, and Touro University wants to lend them a helping hand.

LONG waiting times, abusive patients and staff stretched to breaking point - everyone has heard the horror stories about late-night A&E trips.

Public sector pay will rise 1% but 70% of nurses already guaranteed a fixed annual rise for career progression will miss out.

Vital, "painful" changes to the health service will need billions of pounds of extra funding if a revolution of the NHS is to be achieved during the next parliament, its outgoing chief executive said.

A volunteer slips her arms into a gauzy yellow hospital gown and approaches a medical crib holding a tiny newborn hooked up to noisy machines.

At the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital and other hospitals around the country, strangers offer a simple yet powerful service for newborns too tiny or sick to go home.