Health chiefs are under fire for sending hundreds of life-size cardboard nurses to GPs’ surgeries at a cost of £150,000 just weeks after they cut district nursing services.  The 6ft high figures – described by officials as “life-size standees” – are part of a campaign to reduce the spread of superbugs such as MRSA and […]

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The Council for the Blind will this year train more nurses in ophthalmic nursing to boost the number of personnel with skills for its outreach eye programme.In an interview yesterday, council director Mr Aplos Nyathi said the move was meant to localise training.“We are no longer taking our nurses to Malawi to be trained for […]

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Jean K. Brown, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, professor and interim dean of the University at Buffalo School of Nursing, has been named dean of the school following a national search, it was announced today by David L. Dunn, M.D., Ph.D., UB vice president for health sciences.A specialist in nursing oncology, Brown succeeds the late Mecca S. […]

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Western Health announced last week they are continuing with a recruitment campaign they hope will result in the addition of ten new nurses to the Stephenville area.
Rob Kenny, vice president of human resources for Western Health, says the health provider is working diligently to recruit new nursing staff to fill the area’s needs.
“We’ve had major […]

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Minister of Health and Social Services Dr Richard Kamwi says he plans to employ seven refugee nurses from Osire Refugee Camp as his ministry strives to beef up its skeleton health personnel at the camp where thousands of refugees from different African countries are housed.
The move is also aimed at employing qualified nurses whose skills […]

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Hundreds of nurses and nursing students descended upon Georgia’s Capitol Thursday to share their professional concerns with legislators.
Dahlonega resident and registered nurse Cindy Balkstra, who is currently president of the 2,400-member Georgia Nurses Association, said the students attended seminars in the morning to learn about the legislative process, and the nurses met one-on-one with lawmakers […]

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The current labour and skills shortage has people from a variety of sectors concerned about their ability to meet the demands of their clients over the coming decade. This debate has been particularly intense and public about the health care sector.
Speculation about the availability of a wide range of medical professionals have citizens worried about […]

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Health Minister Michael McGimpsey is expected to spell out to the Assembly on Monday his plans for reorganising the NHS in Northern Ireland. Those plans involve further streamlining of the administration. Already 18 health and social services trusts have been reduced to five and it is expected that the four Health Boards will be merged […]

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Warwick Hospital’s maternity unit provides mothers and their babies with a good level of care according to a national health watchdog.
The Healthcare Commission’s nation-wide report into maternity services has rated South Warwickshire NHS Hospital Trust - which runs the hospital - as one of the country’s “better performing”.
It has praised the hospital’s high standards of […]

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AT 5.10pm yesterday members of the New South Wales Nurses Association were still sitting by their fax machine waiting for an explanation from the North Coast Area Health Service on its plans to reallocate 86 North Coast hospital beds, including 12 from Grafton and Maclean, as surge beds.
They didn’t get it.
Nurses Association organiser Susan Pearce […]

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