A California watchdog group says nursing assistants who lost their certification still found work caring for the elderly.

A nursing home which had 15 residents recently but now has only three is to close because it is no longer viable, say its owners.

The aged care workforce - comprised of 98% women workers - is one of the most unfairly remunerated in Australia. The Australian Nursing Federation federal secretary, Ged Kearney, said nurses, assistants in nursing (AINs) and personal care workers (PCWs), who care for vulnerable elderly residents in nursing homes suffer pay discrimination because it is a largely female dominated industry...

The American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the U.S., joined a coalition of organizations at an event on Capitol Hill today to urge Congress to pass health reform legislation now...

The number of licensed registered nurses (RNs) in the United States grew to a new high of 3.1 million between 2004 and 2008 according to a report released today by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). This increase of more than 5 percent also reflects growing diversity in the backgrounds of nurses in the United States...

Two US cancer nurses have researched the evidence behind a commonly applied rule that cancer patients should not apply skin creams or lotions for four hours before having radiotherapy treatment and found there is little evidence to support this belief and that practice varies widely. Trish Bieck and Shannon Phillips from the James P...

Announcing the launch of the Liebert Mobile iPhone App, a dynamic new application delivering the latest news, resources, press releases, research, and multimedia content directly to your iPhone. Convenient access to information across the biomedical, biotechnology, medicine, surgery, and nursing, integrative medicine, environmental, and public health fields is available with this free application...

The Australian Nursing Federation has welcomed the decision to pass legislation giving nurse practitioners and eligible midwives access to MBS and PBS. ANF Federal Secretary Ged Kearney congratulated the senate on their decision to pass the Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009 saying it was significant news and a major win for consumers...

The American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the U.S., has approved two instructive and interpretive policy documents produced by its Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics (CNPE): a revised position statement entitled Nurses' Role in Capital Punishment, and an initial position statement entitled Just Culture...

The Royal College of Nursing in Wales in partnership with a local nurse from Abertawe Bro Morganwg Local Health Board has organised an event for health care staff working within the NHS and independent sector at the Aberavon Hotel, Port Talbot on Monday, 1 March, 2010. This event was sponsored by the Welsh Union Learning Fund...

Royal College of Nursing Applauds Welsh Assembly Government's Plan to Help Military Veterans Tina Donnelly, Director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, said: "The Royal College of Nursing in Wales is pleased that the Welsh Assembly Government is allocating additional funding to support our military veterans...

Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee report Improving dementia services in England - an interim report, Janet Davies, Executive Director of Nursing and Service Delivery at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "It is deeply concerning that dementia care is still not being dealt with as a priority...

The Wall Street Journal: "Errors made by doctors, nurses and other medical caregivers cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths a year. Hospital infections, many considered preventable, take another 100,000 lives. ...

The Associated Press reports that heart defibrillators implanted in a patient's chest may disrupt a quiet death, but doctors and relatives of people dying of non-heart related diseases often don't consider that issue. "It's not unusual for health professionals to avoid the topic, says Dr. Nathan Goldstein of New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center...

The National Association For Continence (NAFC) awarded Leslie Saltzstein Wooldridge, MSN, RNCS, GNP-BC, and Francie Bernier, PhD, MSN, RNC with the Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award at the Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates (SUNA) Annual Symposium on March 12, 2010...

When health care organizations don't establish effective measures to prevent violence and protect nurses, the result is compromised quality of care for patients. Establishing a zero tolerance policy for violence is the first step, according to Jean Henry, a health science researcher at the University of Arkansas. Henry and colleague Gregory O...

The Columbia University School of Nursing is under new management, University President Lee Bollinger announced Tuesday.

Nipissing University nursing students Natalie Fraser and Cara Collins learned a little bit more about health care in Ghana, Africa, this month than they expected.[...]

WELLAND — Niagara Health System nurse Donna Rothwell was honoured by the hospital system with the 2009 president's award. Rothwell, who is responsible for the maternal child program at Welland hospital, was recognized for her leadership.[...]

The sword of derecognition again hangs over the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH)-run BSc nursing course.