8 Invaluable Pieces Of Advice From NICU Nurses
Ask any parent who's had a preemie in the neonatal intensive care about their experience, and they'll no doubt say something along the lines of "... but the nurses ... they were incredible." Because...
View ArticleBox Hill nurse accused of ignoring doctors' orders to feed babies formula
A senior nurse in charge of Box Hill Hospital's special care nursery has been accused of ignoring doctors' orders to feed vulnerable babies formula and to provide them with oxygen. But the nurse,...
View ArticleFTC Action: Medical ‘Discount’ Card Scammers Banned from Selling...
(Source: Federal Trade Commission) A mother-son marketing team who allegedly tricked Spanish-speaking and other consumers into buying phony medical discount cards will be banned from selling any...
View ArticlePioneering INIC program provides benefits for preemies (Wheaton Franciscan...
(Source: Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Iowa Inc) posted 11/2/2015 in News Thanks to a pioneering Covenant Medical Center program, preemie Hannah Jackson wasn't separated at birth from her parents....
View ArticleAccused fraudster Brad Sherwin stooged his 98-year-old mum
At almost 100 years of age Mavis Sherwin walked into her local bank branch to report she had lost her passbook. She was shocked when she was told that more than $1 million had washed through her...
View ArticleCare lacking before prisoner death
The coroner has found a prisoner at the Otago Corrections Facility did not receive appropriate health care during his sentence in the months before his death. Body Edward Cuttance was transferred from...
View ArticleYes, You Can be a Stay-at-Home Nurse (Concorde Career Colleges Inc)
(Source: Concorde Career Colleges Inc) Nov. 6, 2015 Did you know that every month, more than a quarter-million Americans turn 65? Aging Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964 are having a profound...
View ArticleWage fraud: Pizza Hut franchisees using 'sham' contracts to underpay drivers
Australia's second-biggest pizza chain, Pizza Hut, is under fire as evidence emerges that its franchisees are using "sham" contracts to pay delivery drivers as little as $12 an hour without super or...
View ArticleTallaght hospital: Deep roots to events hogging headlines
It was at the end of a long working day and, more relevantly, a very long week in the life of their workplace, when the consultants of Tallaght hospital trooped in for a special meeting of the medical...
View ArticleWHD News Release: Nursing home staffing agency ordered to pay more than $636K...
(Source: US Department of Labor) Nursing home staffing agency ordered to pay more than $636K in back wages to at least 150 direct care staff at 10 New Jersey nursing homes Broadway Healthcare...
View ArticleChaperones will be present during sensitive exams in LA County medical centers
Chaperones will be present during all sensitive medical examinations at L.A. County clinics and hospitals in response to a $1.3 million settlement with a patient who was allegedly sexually molested by...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney’s Office Files Civil Lawsuit Against New Jersey Couple and Two...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Newark Field Office) NEWARK, NJ-U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today that the government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit and filed a...
View ArticleGovernment Files Lawsuit against Hyannis Company Selling Unapproved “Medical...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts) BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney's Office announced today that it has sued to enjoin Hyannis-based Lehan Enterprises, Inc., doing...
View ArticleUttar Pradesh: Doctor, nurse detained in medical negligence case of baby
Rampur: A woman doctor and a staff nurse of the district hospital here have been detained after the head of a baby got separated from its body during delivery as it was allegedly pulled out of the...
View ArticleJames M. Louks and FiberPoP Solutions, Inc. (SEC - The United States...
(Source: SEC - The United States Securities and Exchange Commission) U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Litigation Release No. 23402 / November 9, 2015 Securities and Exchange Commission v. James...
View ArticleAleppo's doctors and nurses face Syrian barrel bombs, detention and torture:...
Beirut: They live in constant fear of the next attack, operating with little in the way of equipment or medication, often forced to turn out the lights at their hospital and work in darkness to avoid...
View ArticleIntimate photo nightmare exposes privacy gap in NSW
Brieana Rose* could not have been more vulnerable. Unconscious on an operating table, having gynaecological surgery to see whether she had cancer. She could never have known that one of the people...
View ArticleDoctors demand pregnant asylum seeker be flown to Australia
A doctors’ group on Friday called on the Australian government to bring a pregnant asylum seeker with health complications from the Australian immigration detention camp on Nauru to Australia to give...
View ArticleWoman arrested for posing as nurse at Bobbi Brown hospice
ATLANTA (AP) -- A woman in charge of caring for Bobbi Kristina Brown at the hospice where she died was impersonating a nurse and faces charges, police said, the latest offshoot following the death of...
View ArticleAntrim Area Hospital: Unison warns paediatric nurses could strike on 19 November
Unison has said the 30 paediatric nurses based at Antrim Area Hospital will go on strike on 19 November if the Northern Health Trust does not make changes to its staffing arrangements. It stems from a...
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