Nursing News

The American Academy of Pediatrics has selected Dr. Brigitta Mueller, Chief Patient Safety Officer at All Children's Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine, to serve as a member of the executive committee of the Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety .

At issue is a bill that would require nursing homes to disclose the financial status of any "related party" businesses that contract with the homes - such as associated companies that own the facility properties, or spinoff businesses that provide rehabilitation or management services.

Patients may get the best care when treated in hospital units staffed by highly experienced nurses, a new study shows.

It's best if young rabbits stay in the wild because the mother is bonded to her babies and teaching them how to survive.

UNION chiefs remain concerned about staffing levels at East Lancashire's hospitals, despite a recent recruitment drive for consultants and nurses.

What may appear to be minor administrative problems in a nursing home - a fax machine locked away at night or no one designated to copy paperwork - can cause major headaches in care transitions, a geriatrician warned in a webinar Thursday.

Staff at the Whittington Hospital were said to be 'surprised' when they first learned of Mr Di Giacomo's research paper.

However, her acting performance in "Nurse 3-D" was so exceptional that she might have made herself similar to Alec Baldwin , an actor whose talent outweighs his off set indiscretions.

Raj Mattu was "vilified and bullied" by the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, according to his lawyers Cardiologist Raj Mattu was "vilified and bullied" by the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust during a years-long "witch hunt", according to Ashfords LLP.

Americans should not be deterred from working to improve our health care system despite difficulties with implementing the websites of the health insurance exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act .

A hospice which provides 24 hour for people with life-limiting illnesses is encouraging people to step up and join in with their latest fundraising initiative.

Ashland University's Dwight Schar College of Nursing on Trimble Road in Mansfield is expanding its academic programming.

As an emergency room physician rushes to a patient, he glances at a QR code by the door to the patient's room and immediately can see the man's medical history and the nurse's notes.

A SOUTHAMPTON grandad died after contracting pneumonia combined with an infection from a long-standing leg ulcer, an inquest was told.

BUILT in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, Barry's former nurses' home and maternity hospital no longer stands on the corner of Woodlands Road and Belmont Street.

East Texas nursing students are helping homeless people improve their health. UT Tyler and UT Longview are partners with the Hiway 80 Rescue Mission.

The days of school nurses only taking temperatures and putting on Band-Aids is long gone.

Three-and-a-half-year-old Emma Quick runs into a room filled with instruments spread out across the floor.

The first four sentences lay out the problem: “It's a damning, disastrous cycle: Not enough nurses to fill shifts.

Nova Scotia's premier is not offering any sympathy to nurses working in the Capital District Health Authority who have been ordered to attend meetings about the illegal strike earlier this month.