Nursing News

Suicide rates are expected to rise when an estimated 400 mental health carers take retirement this month, it has been revealed.

Magruder Hospital recently appointed Kathy Durflinger as the hospital's vice president of nursing, a position she has held on an interim basis since June.

In a midyear budget move that Santa Clara County officials say will resolve an unexpected $58 million deficit at Valley Medical Center, the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to use $30 million in a one-time payment from the general fund, with the balance made up by a combination of $15 million in hospital revenues and $13 million in ... (more)

Lincoln, NE, February 07, 2012 - Health Education Solutions, a leading provider of advanced cardiac life support and pediatric advanced life support online certification, today released new PALS certification practice tests and a Pediatric Nursing Programs special section to help individuals who provide emergency care to children prepare for ... (more)

With its impressive 93-year history, the Mennonite College of Nursing continues to prove itself as an innovative, high-quality program dedicated to helping today's students become tomorrow's nurses.

Dr. Elmer Long is the Medical Director of the Free Medical Clinic and one of four volunteer doctors who assists those in need at the clinic.

MINNEAPOLIS - A southeastern Minnesota nursing home is accused of neglect after a patient died from choking on food during a meal last march, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

Nancy Mike of Iqaluit, left, a nursing student at Nunavut Arctic College, with Andrew Morrison of the Nunavut Research Institute, gave out information about the Bachelor of Science in nursing, practical nursing and pre-nursing programs offered through the college during a stop in Arctic Bay last month.

Two years after a magnitude-7 quake hit Haiti, the Caribbean nation remains paralyzed by the destruction, says Fitzgerald, a Boston College senior from Groton.

Nurses and midwives gathered out the front of the Hospital yesterday, calling for better patient care and appropriate staffing levels.

1. The nurses group represents between 300 and 400 registered nurses at the hospital and has demanded a meeting with Gray.

When Samuel started kindergarten, his parents tried to work with the school nurse so he would be safe.

Newly-divorced middle-aged women are more vulnerable to contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, a study reveals.

For Meghan Fischer, of Port Monmouth, and Kevin Moedt, of Middletown, the prospect of paying for four years of college is daunting.

Ed Miliband has claimed that 6,000 under-threat nursing jobs could be protected with the money saved from abandoning the Government's NHS reforms.

A Vienna hospital is searching for long-retired staff who might hold clues to a man's claim that he was deliberately infected with malaria when he was a psychiatric patient nearly half a century ago.

A Every day, I work with new mothers to assist them in nursing their newborns.A If their baby is premature or sick, I help them pump so they can establish and maintain their milk supply.

THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation will recruit and deploy registered nurses as customer assistance, relations and empowerment staff to government hospitals to provide better, more personalized services to members at point-of-service. Deployment is expected to start next month once the recruitment and training processes have been ... (more)

The University of Mississippi received 340 qualified applications this fall, yet was only able to accept 140.

A new crop of nurses is being trained as population care coordinators -- nurses who serve as part coach, part health advocate to improve coordinated follow-up and preventive and wellness care.