Health care facilities are more interested in hiring nursing students who can think critically and organize than those who boast specific competencies, such as an impressive number of injections given.
The hospitals also want nurses to be passionate and have a sense of identity in their profession. To maximize dialogue, panel presenters summarized key issues, such as […]

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Deans and directors of nursing programs across West Virginia are comparing notes, but cannot find a direct reason for why nursing students in West Virginia are less likely to pass the national test to get their licenses than their counterparts in any other state.Preliminary data from the state’s Board of Registered Professional Nurses for 2007 […]

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THE father of a boy requiring treatment at the the Royal Children’s Hospital believes the new building won’t have the space to meet growing demand - while the size of a shopping mall on the site has doubled.Since the State Government awarded the $1 billion project to the Children’s Health Partnership in November last year, […]

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A SENIOR nurse lashed out at a disabled patient suffering dementia, a nursing tribunal heard yesterday. Staff Nurse Diane Whitton, 42, is alleged to have struck the elderly male resident in the chest in retaliation after he grabbed at her.

The nurse was helping the resident, known as Mr A, to dress on the morning of […]

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Health Minister Mary Harney has announced the commencement of work of the Conmmission on Nurses’ Working Hours.The Commission will carry out an independent assessment of how a 35-hour week for nurses and midwives can be achieved. The Irish Nurses Organisation welcomed the announcement of the Commission The establishment of the Commission was part of the settlement terms […]

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A MIDWIFE who was too lazy to check the blood pressure of a mum-to-be has been struck off.Edith Hirst, of Longbenton, North Tyneside, was kicked out of the nursing profession after a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel heard she failed to carry out the required checks on the 23-year-old woman.She then falsified records to […]

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