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A Big Sister Can Never Stop Worrying
A Big Sister Can Never Stop Worrying
posted by tonnyscott 527 days 1 hour 45 minutes ago
If my mom is Batman, I'm her Robin. The sidekick with the ill-fitting bodysuit, I help her navigate through the dark lair that is my younger sisters' lives, side-chopping inappropriate boyfriends and infiltrating the world of college drinking.
Read more...Software Simplifies Charting, but There's a Learning Curve
Software Simplifies Charting, but There's a Learning Curve
posted by andy12 513 days 23 hours 28 minutes ago
Click-clicking to document reports of pre-, intra-, and postoperative activities -- instead of writing it all down and risking legibility problems -- has nurses singing the praises of electronic documentation systems.
Read more...Worried Nurses React Differently To Attacks On Staff And Patients In Psychiatric Wards
Worried Nurses React Differently To Attacks On Staff And Patients In Psychiatric Wards
posted by travel_nursing 496 days 2 hours 31 minutes ago
Psychiatric nurses have a one in ten chance of being physically injured by an aggressive patient over the course of a year and many more suffer emotional distress because of the verbal abuse they receive while working in these difficult and challenging environments.
Read more...ANA Releases Newly Revised Scope And Standards For Nurses In Correctional System Settings
ANA Releases Newly Revised Scope And Standards For Nurses In Correctional System Settings
posted by andy12 492 days 4 hours 47 minutes ago
SILVER SPRING, MD - This book is the second revision of Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice in Correctional facilities, first released in 1995.
Read more...State Budget Has New Programs To Combat Nurse Shortage, New York
State Budget Has New Programs To Combat Nurse Shortage, New York
posted by annie1980 492 days 4 hours 46 minutes ago
One of the contributing factors to the shortage is the lack of faculty and facilities to teach nursing," said Tina Gerardi, RN, interim chief executive officer of the New York State Nurses Association.
Read more...Wisc. Settles Veterans Nursing Home Suit
Wisc. Settles Veterans Nursing Home Suit
posted by andrewmartin 531 days 2 hours 25 minutes ago
The state's largest nursing home for veterans paid $87,500 to settle a lawsuit claiming poor nursing care led to a patient's death in 2004.
Read more...Nursing students make inaugural service trip to Nicaragua over break
Nursing students make inaugural service trip to Nicaragua over break
posted by patrickstar 532 days 3 hours 1 minute ago
"I've seen what it is like for people to be vulnerable in every sense - financially, mentally, and physically," said Courtney Pladsen, CSON '07. Reflecting on her recent medical service/immersion trip to Managua, Nicaragua, with nine fellow nursing students and three professors, Pladsen noted that after encountering the dire health conditions of the impoverished, she better understands the need for nurses to treat the patient as a whole person as opposed to focusing on the dealing with a localized injury. This was one of many lessons in both clinical nursing and social justice Pladsen and the other participants acquired during their stay in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Read more...Ex-nurse ran a hate campaign
Ex-nurse ran a hate campaign
posted by craven 494 days 9 hours 6 minutes ago
A former nurse who twice tried to burn down a family's home and scrawled offensive graffiti on their door was jailed yesterday. Wheelchair user Angela Hickley posted burning papers through the letterbox of her Iranian neighbours and wrote messages on their door saying "not long now" and "you'll be next". Newcastle Crown Court heard the terrified family were only saved from being burnt to death when their 11-year-old son saw the burning bundle and managed to put it out. Alcoholic Hickley, a former nurse at St Nicholas Hospital, Gosforth, Newcastle, took a dislike to the family and told neighbours they were drug dealers - casting unfounded suspicion within the family on their 17-year-old son.
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