Posts Tagged ‘nursing’

Patients’ ratings ‘to boost care’

Friday, May 25th, 2012

A new NHS patient rating system – known as the “friends and family test” – is to be introduced to help improve nursing care in England.

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Patients ‘treated in corridors’

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Patients are being treated in corridors and left for hours on trolleys due in part to a reduction in hospital beds, the Royal College of Nursing claims.

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Patients ‘treated in corridors’

Extreme breastfeeding

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Did magazine image exploit or promote debate on nursing?

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Extreme breastfeeding

On Love: ‘I know you told me not to, but I think I fell in love with you’

Friday, May 11th, 2012

On the day of their wedding, Brad Oscar and Diego Prieto shared a spotlight at Arena Stage , just as they’d done almost seven years before. Prieto was 30 in the fall of 2005 and had come out as a gay man to friends and family just the year before. Oscar was a decade older, a veteran Broadway actor still nursing the wounds of a breakup. Read full article > >

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College killings accused charged

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Former nursing student One Goh is charged with seven counts of murder over Monday’s deadly shooting rampage at a California university.

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Neglect at nursing home uncovered

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Evidence of neglect and abuse at a private nursing home in Essex is uncovered by a BBC investigation.

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Neglect at nursing home uncovered

NASCAR Driver Sorry for Breastfeeding Tweets

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Said public nursing was “nasty.”

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NASCAR Driver Sorry for Breastfeeding Tweets

VIDEO: Union: 50,000 NHS jobs ‘at risk’

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

A row has broken out between nursing leaders and the government over the number of jobs being cut in the NHS.

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VIDEO: Union: 50,000 NHS jobs ‘at risk’

Fatal nursing home fire in Sydney

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Three people died and 50 were injured when a fire ripped through a nursing home in Sydney, Australian officials say.

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Fatal nursing home fire in Sydney

Shrinking the Nursing Home Until It Feels Like a Home

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

The Green House concept is the most comprehensive effort to reinvent the nursing home, including the way medical care is delivered.

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Shrinking the Nursing Home Until It Feels Like a Home

Scots nurses fear job insecurity

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

A Royal College of Nursing study claims less than a third of Scotland’s nurses feel they are in a secure job.

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Scots nurses fear job insecurity

Nurses want longer visiting hours

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

The Royal College of Nursing calls for extended visiting times in hospitals so patients’ relatives can become more involved in their care.

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Bedbug infestations growing in certain settings, survey finds

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Just as students head back to college and families finish summer vacations comes the latest bad news from pest control companies: Bedbug infestations are getting worse and becoming more common in some places, including dorms, hotels, nursing homes, hospitals, office buildings, and schools and day-care centers. According to a survey released Wednesday by the National Pest Management Association and the University of Kentucky, pest control companies say there has been double-digit growth in infestations in the past year. Read full article > >

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C.diff probe to hear from experts

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Independent nursing experts are to give evidence to a public inquiry into Scotland’s worst Clostridium difficile (C.diff) outbreak.

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C.diff probe to hear from experts

Last WWI veteran dies at age 110

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

The world’s last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude “Chuckles” Choules, dies in an Australian nursing home at the age of 110.

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