Nursing News

Botsford Hospital honored 19 nurses with the Nursing Excellence Award, given to highlight high-achieving nurses for their skill, compassion, and commitment to nursing.

A nurses' union has raised "extreme concerns" over plans to move all emergency orthopaedic surgery from Whitehaven to Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary.

Two senior students at Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing at Beebe Medical Center have earned the new Beebe Medical Staff Nursing Scholars scholarship.

When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child.As the floor shook ?like an earthquake' beneath her and ceiling tiles and insulation fell overhead, the 25-year-old huddled with four nurses, braving both the peak ... (more)

Hundreds of registered nurses moved from patient bedsides to the streets on Thursday morning to begin a strike against two San Jose hospitals affiliated with the Hospital Corporation of America.

UMass Memorial Medical Center and the union representing 1,100 nurses have reached a tentative contract agreement that staves off a scheduled strike.

'All of a sudden I could see daylight and the wall was gone': Mother relives giving birth as twister destroyed hospital around her Shayla Taylor, 25, was in the middle of labor on the upper floor of Moore Medical Center delivering her second child when the monstrous storm directly hit She was forced to brave both the peak contractions of childbirth ... (more)

Workers at University of California hospitals around the state are picketing for a second day over staffing and pension issues.

Nursing heroes were showered with flowers, tea and cake as a special thank you for the work they do caring for terminally ill patients in Barnet and Enfield.

And symptoms of malnutrition are frequently confused for natural signs of ageing, according to the report by a Canberra academic.

Andy Georgalas was watching live tornado coverage from his Moore, Okla., home when he realized that the destructive funnel cloud on television was spinning his way.

The Royal College of Nursing and Queen's Nursing Institute say the situation is adding to the pressure on hospitals.

The nonprofit organization opened the school in 2010 and graduated 40 students, largely to supply licensed practical nurses to its group of nursing homes.

A raft of mistakes at Tauranga Hospital led to the misdiagnosis of a patient who later died, the Health and Disability Commissioner has found.

Wallace Community College recently conferred credentials upon spring 2013 graduates of the associate degree and practical nursing programs at the Dothan Civic Center.

HOSPITAL boss Clare Panniker has promised to root out the "rotten apples" working in Basildon in an effort to improve care.

From left, Marie Curie supporter Irene Vallis, Breeze FM presenter Tony Wright, Marie Curie nurse Catherine LeRoy, Breeze FM presenter, grooms girl Jadie Myatt and Playboy the horse Brush off your walking boots, grab your glow sticks and load up your picnic baskets in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care this summer.

Baystate Franklin Medical Center president Chuck Gijanto insists in a countywide letter that the hospital is increasing its medical services - a direct response to resolutions approved in 10 towns that urge the hospital to keep its local services intact.

Beaumont Health System and Henry Ford Health System have ended discussions of a proposed merger to combine their operations into a new health system.

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