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’ ratings ‘to boost care’
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’
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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On Love: ‘I know you told me not to, but I think I fell in love with you’
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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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
Said public nursing was “nasty.”
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NASCAR Driver Sorry for Breastfeeding Tweets
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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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
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
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
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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Nurses want longer visiting hours
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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Bedbug infestations growing in certain settings, survey finds
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
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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