Nursing News

The Floridean Nursing and Rehabilitation Center turned 70 this year, still being run by the fourth generation of the founding family.

A NURSE leading cancer services in Worcestershire has been picked to speak at an international conference in the USA looking at how treatment for the condition can be made more comfortable.

NHS chiefs have asked elderly patients to give their views on health and social care, ahead of moves to reduce the number of admissions to East Lancashire's hospitals.

Before it was the Commonwealth Games, it was the Empire Games, and Vancouver was the site 60 years ago this week.

Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have reached a deal to overhaul the embattled Department of Veterans Affairs, multiple news organizations are reporting.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks during a news conference Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington.

The Arizona Daily Sun reports that the Arizona State Board of Nursing has enforced an 18-month probation period.

Newcastle United could be tempted to make a move for Loic Remy in the wake of the striker's move to Liverpool collapsing But now a happy and healthy six-year-old, Paige wants to give back to the nurses who helped save her life.

A car fire spread to a nursing home in the 100 block of Bellefontaine Street in Pasadena on Sunday, July 28, 2014, prompting the temporary evacuation of 127 primarily bed-ridden patients, authorities said.

The number of times GP surgeries in England are forced to turn away patients for appointments next year will pass the 50 million mark, new research predicts.

Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., scheduled a news conference Monday to talk about a compromise plan to fix a veterans' health program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsified records covering up delays.

Study presented at the ACS NSQIP- National Conference reports that evidence-based measures plus an interdisciplinary team approach reduces surgical site infection rates in a high-risk patient population A common postoperative complication after open heart operations-infection at the surgical site-has been reduced by 77 percent at a Canadian ... (more)

The doctor and nurse are married, the certified family nurse practitioner CFNP and physician's assistant certified PA-C are a mother daughter duo.

We need to get the care our veterans need and fast. There is no question that we must provide our veterans the care they need and deserve.

The first public meeting about the University of Houston-Victoria's transition team and its work will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 5 in the campus Multi-Purpose Room, 3007 N. Ben Wilson St. What concerns about UHV's future would you like to hear addressed at this meeting? What steps are most critical for UH and UHV to take in the next few years to ... (more)

If past experience is anything to go by, nurse practitioners in New York State are about to get a lot more recognition for their contributions to primary care.

Wendy Harrison, a staff nurse in the emergency department at the Royal Blackburn Hospital , won the Pioneering Community Nurse of the Year award at the Welch Allyn Pioneers of Care Awards.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration is awarding the grant to the School of Nursing at the Bangor campus.

After returning home to be with her aging parents, Burns said her mother suggested she consider applying for a Spanish interpreter job at the medical center.

AND NEW CONTROVERSY TONIGHT FOLLOWING THE ABRUPT DEPARTURE OF NATIVIDAD MEDICAL CENTER'S C-E-O EARLIER THIS WEEK.