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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 594 days 16 hours 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...Plan Could Close 20 or More New York Hospitals
Plan Could Close 20 or More New York Hospitals
posted by aliux 591 days 12 hours ago
A long-awaited plan to shrink New York State’s hospital industry landed yesterday with force, with proposals that could effectively eliminate 20 or more hospitals and thousands of jobs, and make dozens of other hospitals shrink, merge or take on new roles.
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 590 days 18 hours 16 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...Mild brain injuries linked to sleep disorders
Mild brain injuries linked to sleep disorders
posted by amanda 588 days 8 hours 15 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Experiencing a mild traumatic brain injury may increase the risk of developing a sleep disorder, and a good portion of these appear to be based on disturbances in the body's normal circadian rhythm, according to the results of a new study.
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 590 days 18 hours 15 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 629 days 15 hours 54 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 630 days 16 hours 30 minutes 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 592 days 22 hours 35 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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