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8 Feb 2010 at 5:00am
Commenting on the Major trauma care in England report, published last week by the National Audit Office, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "It is disappointing that trauma care is still not up to scratch in many areas despite numerous calls for improvement...
8 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a medical malpractice law enacted in 2005 that limited monetary damages to $1 million from hospitals and $500,000 from doctors for pain and suffering, the Chicago Tribune reports. "The much-anticipated ruling deals a blow to doctors and hospital officials who say caps on damages are a way to tame rising health care costs. ...
6 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce that the AORN Journal, the official journal of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), has expanded its editorial content and redesigned the layout of its print format...
5 Feb 2010 at 4:00am
Aine Brady, T.D., Minister for Older People and Health Promotion, announced that applications for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme, A Fair Deal, have exceeded 7,000. "I am delighted that so many people have applied for the scheme. However, I am aware that there are many other people who could benefit from applying for the scheme and I would encourage them to do so as soon as possible...
5 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
Quintiles have announced findings from a recent study from a program in which a team of 19 nurse educators helped raise awareness of a newly approved oncology drug for a major pharmaceutical company from 37% to 57%...
5 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
Making flu shots mandatory in 2008 dramatically increased the vaccination rate among St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare's nearly 26,000 employees to more than 98 percent, according to a report now online in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The study's lead author, infectious disease specialist Hilary Babcock, M.D...
4 Feb 2010 at 6:00am
UK programmes designed to help the unemployed get back to work and support young parents are losing impact because they are not designed with the participants' gender in mind. Men as well as women can lose out as a result of 'gender blind' policies. This finding, based on two case studies in the North East of England, appears in Critical Social Policy this week, published by SAGE...
4 Feb 2010 at 5:00am
Commenting on the Audit Commission report Giving Children a Healthy Start, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "It is deeply concerning to learn that children living in deprived areas continue to have poorer health outcomes than those in more affluent areas...
4 Feb 2010 at 4:00am
Three-quarters of nurses providing private and public care experienced workplace violence, but only one in six incidents were formally reported, according to study published in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. The majority (92%) said they had been verbally abused, 69% had been physically threatened and 52% had been physically assaulted...
4 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
The traditional practice of restricting food and fluids during labour does not provide any benefits, finds a new review co-authored by a Queen's University Associate Professor. "Based on our review, there is no convincing and current evidence to support restriction of fluids, and perhaps food, for women during labour. Women should be able to choose for themselves," says Dr...
3 Feb 2010 at 2:00pm
Aged care nurses and nursing home residents from across Australia are coming to Canberra to issue a united plea to the Federal overnment: make Budget 2010 the aged care budget. ANF Federal Secretary Ged Kearney, together with 20 concerned aged care nurses and residents, will meet with MP's and Senators to push for increased funding to improve the aged care workforce...
3 Feb 2010 at 4:00am
In the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center has been actively assisting Haitian nurses and midwives from afar, gathering nursing education materials and making them available electronically...
2 Feb 2010 at 11:00pm
National American University ("NAU") , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of National American University Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCBB: NAUH), today announced that it has been approved by the South Dakota Board of Nursing to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program in South Dakota...
2 Feb 2010 at 7:00am
As we begin the new decade, despite an abundance of food, worldwide, more than 1 billion persons are living with hunger. A Special Issue of Agricultural Water Management, "Investing in Water For Food, Ecosystems and Livelihoods", published by Elsevier, provides insight and recommendations regarding causes and potential solutions to the hunger crisis...
2 Feb 2010 at 6:00am
News outlets report on sectors of the health care industry. The Sacramento Bee: "The gleaming new tower at Mercy San Juan Medical Center bustles with patients, nurses and doctors. ... Opened a month ago, Mercy's tower was cited in a recent report ranking Sacramento as the nation's fastest growing market for health care jobs...
