Kathy Deol said she remembers everything about the first home birth she witnessed.
It was April 16, 1996 in Fairfield. It was a snowy — yes, snowy — night.
“My first job was holding the flashlight,” she said, laughing.
Deol, from Fort Madison, said from that night on, she knew she wanted to be a midwife.
“It was like […]

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When Kerisha David emigrated from Jamaica five years ago, her cousin suggested she enroll in nursing school so she could get a good job that would pay the bills and make a difference.
But David wasn’t interested.“I didn’t think I’d be cut out to do it,” said David, 30, who lives in Stamford.
But she ended up […]

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Due to widespread hospital staff shortages, nurses are spending too much time on non-nursing duties such as serving meals and changing sheets and not enough time providing care, according to a new report.
The Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada recently released its 2007 report card, which included a survey of nurses at oncology centres across the […]

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The nurses’ union is calling on the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region to ship patients out of the region to address safety concerns caused by overcrowded emergency rooms.The emergency rooms are overflowing because of the nursing shortage and a outbreak of VRE (antibiotic-resistant infections) which has resulted in bed closures placing stress on an already overburdened […]

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Staff and students at Dundee University are said to be “shocked” after a former student was found guilty of killing patients at two Leeds hospitals. Nurse Colin Norris, 32, murdered four women, and attempted to kill another, by injecting them with insulin. He had attended Dundee University between 1998 and 2001. During that time he carried […]

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