Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center CEO Stephen Meredith talked about the need for more staffing in the medical field.“It has become increasingly difficult to recruit healthcare professionals for the hospital,” explained Meredith.Initially the tuition payment program offered new students reimbursement of money spent for their education, but it was not tax-exempt. Read more

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A bungling midwife who made a string of errors during a mother’s gruelling nine-hour labour has been struck off the register.Devastated mum Elizabeth Reader was left cradling her stillborn baby daughter after Peter Davies, 45, ignored a senior doctor’s instructions.Davies failed to check the girl’s heart rate every 15 minutes despite the delivery’s “high-risk” status […]

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A “pregnant” mannequin named “Noelani” is providing doctors and nurses at Maui Memorial Medical Center a way to practice handling realistic childbirth emergencies without risking the lives of mothers and their newborns.
The $22,000 mannequin is hooked up to a computer program that simulates various emergency situations, which rarely happen but nevertheless put pregnant moms and […]

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A strike by 11,000 Manitoba nurses has been averted. Eleventh-hour talks this weekend ended in a deal that called off today’s strike vote.“We got a call on Friday with what we felt was an offer significant enough to get us back to the table,” said Manitoba Nurses Union president Maureen Hancharyk.The nurses union bargaining committee […]

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High nursing vacancy and turnover rates in Florida continue to plague the profession, and without corrective action, the Florida Center for Nursing expects the shortage to intensify.
“The survey reflected what has been reported anecdotally and gave us some specific information,” says Mary Lou Brunell, RN, MSN, executive director of the state-mandated Florida Center for Nursing […]

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