Nursing News

A nurse sacked for slapping a violent mental health patient who spat in his face has been allowed to keep his job.

A Faulkner County jury returned a unanimous verdict last night that the Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had been negligent in treatment of Martha Bull, 76, who died at the nursing home April 7, 2008 after staff failed to act on a doctor's orders to get her transferred to a hospital emergency room for treatment of severe abdominal pain.

The Homemakers Health Services is pleased to announce the addition of two visiting nurses to its Clinical Services Division: Norma Juneau, RN and Barbara Laganiere, RN, both of Rochester.

Langley Times reporter Gary Ahuja, joined by his wife, Karm, and son Danny, 6, hugs his three-year-old daughter, Maya, at the family's Abbotsford home.

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, which runs community and mental health services, celebrated the work of its nursing staff at a special event to mark International Nurses Day.

UMass Memorial Health Care and nurses at its Memorial and Hahnemann campuses have agreed to a contract, averting a strike that had been threatened by the nurses union.

Registered nurses at The Scarborough Hospital are advocating for their patients by helping the community send the message: cutting nurses is cutting health care.

If there is one problem that symbolizes the ongoing national healthcare emergency, it is the rampant price gouging in the healthcare industry that continues to price too many Americans out of access to care and into financial ruin.

From left, Melissa Robinson, Pat Rowland and Sandy Hoilman were recently recognized with Nursing Excellence Awards from the Appalachian Regional Healthcare System.

Mrs. Oregon Tara Arnold teaches students at Beaverton's Stoller Middle School a dance to Beyonce'A s "AoeMove Your Body"A . She spent a few weeks at the school late last month as part of her "Movin'A It With Mrs.

Former CDI College nursing student Ennet Sekeramayi said students raced wheelchairs and watched Netflix videos instead of receiving formal instruction during class time.

Cassie Phillips Lantz of Staunton, Va., formerly of Elkins, completed her Bachelor of Science in nursing from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., on May 4. Lantz received her associate of science in registered nursing at Davis & Elkins College in 2002.

Three years ago Weston real estate agent Leslie Mann read a story on the Internet that horrified her.

As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes.

Chief nurse Karen Dunderdale with key note speakers Jill Walker and Julie Storr at the Best Practice Day.

Contributed photos Two Chesterfield County residents were pinned as registered nurses May 9 at a ceremony at the Cole Auditorium on Richmond Community College's campus in Hamlet, N.C. Newly pinned nurses from Chesterfield County are Latoya Johnson of Pageland and Linda Bouie of Cheraw.

This undated file image released by the British Health Protection Agency shows an electron microscope image of a coronavirus, part of a family of viruses that cause ailments including the common cold and SARS, which was first identified last year in the Middle East.

My favorite thing about the MSOE nursing program is that my professors know me by name.

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A statewide association of doctors and medical students is backing a proposed ban on the sale of tobacco products by health care institutions.