Nursing News

Main Category: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Also Included In: Diabetes Article Date: 08 Jul 2009 - 6:00 PDT The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Diabetes Association next month plan to launch a joint campaign designed to raise awareness about pregnancy-related risks from diabetes, USA Today reports.

Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations Also Included In: Urology / Nephrology Article Date: 09 Jul 2009 Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St.

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee announces that it filed a complaint with the California Department of Public Health , calling for an urgent investigation into the ongoing use of dozens of narcotic infusion pumps at the University of California Irvine Medical Center that have a history of failure, thereby ...

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Ground was broken this morning at the University of Guam for new nursing classrooms.

Actor Michael J. Fox, has Parkinson's Disease and has appealed to scientists to create new treatments for the debilitating disease People with Parkinson's disease are falling through gaps in health care with some waiting years before they see a specialist doctor, according to a parliamentary inquiry today.

More than 400 healthcare workers at Union Hospital in Lynn have voted to join Service Employees International Union, Local 1199.

The nation's first standard to safeguard workers from the spread of airborne diseases was approved yesterday by California's Office of Administrative Law and filed with the Secretary of State.

A senior specialist at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto on Tuesday challenged the public to accompany doctors on hospital rounds.

A state grievance panel that reinstated two of three State Hospital nurses that had been fired has issued its written report.

Gravely ill with heart disease, tethered to an oxygen tank, her feet swollen and her appetite gone, Sister Dorothy Quinn, 87, readied herself to die in the nursing wing of the Sisters of St.

A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in the hospital shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005.

Ita s been in the works since 2006 and carries a price tag of $150 million. Wednesday morning the doors to the new East Tower opened atA University Hospital A in Syracuse andA employees got right to work serving patients.

Hugh Grant has launched a campaign to highlight nursing services available for terminally ill cancer sufferers.

A judge in Seattle has been asked to halt cuts to a health care program for disabled adults living in Washington state-sponsored homes.

The first American Journal of Nursing Conference: Advancing Excellence in Nursing Practice will bring together a multidisciplinary group of nurses dedicated to improving the health and quality of life for patients on October 4-6, at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

The American Federation of Teachers has taken over the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals and dismissed its leaders.

Baby Riley Matthews wheezed noisily on the exam table. "He's belly-breathing," the emergency-room doctor said worriedly -- Riley's little abdomen was markedly rising and falling with each breath, a sign of respiratory distress.

Chemical dependency and recovery in patients and physicians are closely examined in a series of articles and editorials in the July 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

A ship at the centre of a vomiting bug outbreak is to cut short its voyage in the Scottish port where it is berthed, its operators said.