Week of activities to celebrate study of nursing (University of Windsor)
(Source: University of Windsor) Nursing is a caring profession, but part of that responsibility is self-care, says Patrick Frias. The third-year nursing student has organized both professional...
View ArticleAndy Weir: Bullying case NHS boss leaves with £170,000
Britain’s largest mental health trust spent a year investigating multiple allegations of bullying, intimidation and harassment against staff, only to compensate an executive at the centre of the claims...
View ArticleIn Caring For Sickest Infants, Doctors Tap Parents For Tough Calls
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Dr. William Benitz walked past the rows of clear plastic isolettes in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. There’s little room to...
View ArticleSusquehanna Health Honors Nurses with DAISY Awards (Susquehanna Health)
(Source: Susquehanna Health) DAISY Award recipients Danielle Thompson, RN; Shahryar Vahabzadeh, LPN; and Danielle Mann, RN Three Susquehanna Health nurses were recently recognized as recipients of the...
View ArticleAccused Melbourne terrorist Adam Brookman in court
A Melbourne nurse accused of carrying out guard duty and reconnaissance for Islamic State when in Syria has appeared briefly in court. Father-of-five Adam Brookman, 39, from Coolaroo in Melbourne's...
View ArticleFormer Texas Federal Judge T. John Ward Earns Lifetime Achievement Awards
LONGVIEW, Texas, Nov. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Accomplished attorney and former U.S. District Judge T. John Ward of Longview, Texas-based Ward, Smith & Hill, PLLC, is being honored by the top two...
View ArticleMater Hospital children move may be permanent
A decision to no longer treat children at the Mater Hospital's emergency department in Belfast may become permanent. The Belfast Health Trust announced on Friday that children under 14 would be...
View ArticleOwners of Home Health Care Agency Found Guilty of Taking Part in $80 Million...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Washington Field Office) WASHINGTON-Florence Bikundi, and her husband, Michael Bikundi, the owners of Global Healthcare, Inc., a home care agency, have been...
View ArticlePerivale doctor and nurse guilty of keeping man as slave for 24 years
A doctor and his nurse wife have been found guilty of keeping a man as a slave for 24 years at their home. Ofonime Sunday Inuk, now 40, told Harrow Crown Court he had arrived in the UK from Nigeria in...
View ArticleNursing students participate in disaster drill (University of Virginia’s...
(Source: University of Virginia’s College at Wise) Medical professionals must make quick, lifesaving decisions, and choosing the proper action is even more vital during a chaotic situation. Senior...
View ArticlePuerto Ricans fear for their health as federal cuts loom
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- An incurable disease has given Jose Gonzalez Ortiz the health of an old man at age 42, and the collapsing Puerto Rican health system only adds to his pain. He was refused...
View ArticleUK College of Nursing, UK Office for Institutional Diversity Highlight...
(Source: University of Kentucky) LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 16, 2015) - Social stigmas, discrimination and infringement of civil rights have led to health care disparities impacting individuals who are...
View ArticleOnondaga County judgments: November 2 to 6
These judgments of $5,000 or more have been filed and docketed at the Onondaga County clerk's office. Debtors are listed first, then creditors and the award: Nov. 2 Lawson, James A., 125 Freeman Ave.,...
View ArticleParents of premature infants urge Hong Kong government to cut queues for...
Parents of premature infants are calling for more early childhood assessment and training to shorten queues for such services. Representing the more than 1,000 parents in the Society of Early Arrivals,...
View ArticleBabies Without Real First Names At Risk
Premature babies in incubators neonatal intensive care units make me nervous. My twin brother and I were preemies. As my mother tells it, the hospital mislabeled us, calling me Baby Boy Schulte and my...
View ArticleMan with locked in syndrome awarded €10m in case against the HSE
A man who has locked in syndrome after an operation at Cork University Hospital has been awarded €10m in final settlement of his High Court action. It brings to €14.1m the total amount paid Eoin O'...
View ArticleDoctor pulls baby's legs, head comes off
RAMPUR: A gynaecologist at the district hospital here could not have used a cruder method to deliver a baby. As the legs emerged first, the doctor tied the infant's limb to a rope and attempted to...
View ArticleDoc yanks off baby's head during delivery
RAMPUR: A gynaecologist at the district hospital here could not have used a cruder method to deliver a baby. As the legs emerged first, the doctor tied the infant's limb to a rope and attempted to...
View ArticleTransgender Occupy protester may sue NYC for discrimination
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge said a transgender Occupy Wall Street protester may sue New York City for treating him differently from other male protesters following their arrests on...
View ArticleMalawi Nurses Slap Govt With Court Injunction Over Employment Ro
[Nyasa Times] Over 300 nurses who were supposed to sit for interviews Tuesday to get employment in public hospitals will have to wait a little longer as Nurses and Midwives Organisation of Malawi has...
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