Faced with a worsening shortage of nurses, Mid-South executives from education and health care are launching an ambitious drive to develop local strategies for easing the national problem.The centerpiece is the Nursing Institute of the Mid-South. Recently incorporated as a private, nonprofit organization, its creation is the culmination of an 18-month effort that brought together […]

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On Jan. 31, the state Senate Study Committee on the Shortage of Doctors and Nurses in Georgia issued a report that revealed some startling findings. Nurse shortages have been a perennial concern in America since at least the early ’70s. Unterman, herself a former RN, says she left the profession in the ’80s because, as a […]

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Lawmakers are grappling with the demographics of Connecticut’s rapidly aging population and an acute staffing shortage among the 241 nursing homes that have about 23,000 residents.“We have dedicated more resources into staffing in a Medicaid system that does not remotely keep pace with the cost of care putting more and more financial pressure on the […]

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A nurse was today convicted of murdering four elderly patients with lethal doses of the diabetes drug insulin.Colin Norris, 32, who worked at two hospitals in Leeds, was also found guilty of the attempted murder of another elderly woman.The trial at Newcastle crown court heard that suspicions were raised when Norris, of Elgin Terrace, Glasgow, […]

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