Nursing News

People in Wiltshire with dementia are now diagnosed and referred to a memory clinic in less than four weeks - eight months sooner than the start of the year.

A WIRRAL medic has been named nurse of the year for her work improving patient access to care and commitment to training others.

Submitted Photo Linda Summers, left, and Conni DeBlieck, right, assistant professors in the NMSU School of Nursing, work with the Student Success Keeper application, which they created in conjunction with 2Morrow Inc. LAS CRUCES, N.M. >> Two New Mexico State University School of Nursing professors, in conjunction with 2Morrow Inc., have created an ... (more)

Angry nurses will hold candlelight rallies Friday to protest what they say is a threat by Dignity Health to roll back monthly pension benefits for retirees by 30 percent in violation of a new contract signed three months ago.

Women, the elderly and some of Utah's most vulnerable populations in need of specialty care from nurse practitioners now will be able to receive those services, thanks, in part, to a faculty member from USU Eastern.

TV commercials and billboards are part of how local hospitals work to attract patients, but the facilities also are striving to bring back the patients who gave them a try.

When Janet Wagner and the roughly 400 employees of Sutter Davis Hospital set out to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2003, they could not have known the award was not the reward.

Regular exercise can help people with dementia think a little more clearly, and care for themselves a bit more, a new study finds.

The Day of New London reports that a state Department of Labor spokeswoman says the hospital is self-insured and does not have to provide 20 days' notice before dropping coverage.

A TEAM of up to 25 inspectors, including doctors and nurses, will descend on Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital for an inspection.

Ontario's auditor general focuses on services in health care, education and energy in her annual report on the provincial government to be released later today.

The program begins in January 2014 to train professional nurses with devotion to healthcare.

Shortages of senior medics, delays, and out-of-date medicines meant the trust was unable to stop epileptic Arina Durbazeva fitting before she suffered a heart attack, Chelmsford Coroners' Court heard.

The Honolulu-based construction firm Nan Inc. recently gave $1 million to the St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii to support the planned Clarence T.C. Ching Skilled Nursing Facility on the former Hawaii Medical Center East campus.

Coco, a lifelike full-body manikin that simulates pregnancy, will provide realistic, risk-free experience to the staff at French Hospital Medical Center.

This story is contributed by a member of the Knoxville community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Knoxville News Sentinel Lincoln Memorial University's Caylor School of Nursing will hold its winter Convocation Ceremony Dec. 12 at the Tex Turner Arena on the LMU main campus in Harrogate, Tenn.

Tonya Battle , an African-American nurse at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Mich., settled a lawsuit with the hospital, after administrators allowed a racist to stop her, and other Black nurses, from providing care, according to MyFoxDetroit .

NEW figures claim the NHS is wasting more than A 76,000 a year on water and energy bills at Malvern Community Hospital.

Learn the story of the little girl who fed the hungry. There will be storytelling, songs, cookies and crafts.

Alan Davies, 78, had a heart attack in Cornwall Street, Plymouth. The nurses leapt to his aid and gave cardiopulmonary resuscitation for vital minutes until an ambulance arrived.