Aquinas College plans to expand its nursing program, which includes new construction, after accepting two donations, $2 million from Saint Thomas Health Services and $4 million from Jim Carell, chairman and founder of CareAll Home Care Services.Carell had pledged $3 million to Aquinas’s nursing program in 2007. At the press conference last September, he pledged […]

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There is an almost unlimited opportunity for the young person who chooses nursing as a career. He or she may choose from many areas in which nursing services are in demand. The number in which to choose in endless. In the United States there is now a nurse shortage. As Baby Boomers come into retirement […]

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We continue our month long look into Hawaii’s health care issues. Health care professionals agree, not only is there a nursing shortage now, but it’s only going to get worse. Many predict by the year 2020, as nurses retire and baby boomers age, we will reach a critical shortage. “I think our challenge is looking at […]

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A NURSE fondled an 88-year-old patient in a Gosport care home, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard.

Carol Gonsalves, 35, indecently touched the half-naked man before shaking a toy monkey in his face and rubbing it on his stomach.
But the panel yesterday decided Gonsalves should not be struck off the nursing register. Instead, it […]

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More than half of nurses on mental health wards have been physically attacked, a survey suggests. Nurses working with older people are the most likely to be assaulted, the joint Healthcare Commission and Royal College of Psychiatrists report said. The study of 69 NHS trusts and private hospitals in England and Wales said patients had […]

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NOMINATIONS for Basingstoke hospital’s top nursing staff are being called for by the foundation trust’s bosses.Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust’s annual Director of Nursing Awards have been launched for 2008.Now patients and visitors are being asked to vote for individual nurses and midwives, or a nursing or midwifery team, who have impressed them.A […]

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Taumarunui is in dire need of at least one more midwife before pregnant women are sent elsewhere for their antenatal and birthing needs. While Taumarunui has previously had two operating midwives until last week, Diane De Esteena has left the profession, and the town, having fallen pregnant herself. The sole remaining independent midwife Jill Arundel […]

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