CNN reports that specialist nurses last year were paid higher average salaries than primary care doctors...

Welcoming the publication of the Health Select Committee report on Social Care, Janet Davies, Executive Director of Nursing and Service Delivery at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: "Nurses have told us that they would prefer a comprehensive model of funding - the only option where everybody would pay collectively for social care, sharing the risk equally and fairly...

The Boone County Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Facility, located on the third floor of the hospital, will not be able to participate in the Medicare program effective March 31, citing under-utilization – a basis the Boone County Hospital says is not included in the Medicare requirements.

Citing a pattern of deficiencies that placed residents in "immediate jeopardy," the state has revoked the license of a 120-bed nursing home in Tacoma. The owner, after initially appealing the revocation, decided this week to close the home.

A Fort Smith nurse was arrested after allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend and her male friend.

The Tennessee Board of Nursing has suspended the licenses of three nurses who worked in the Appalachian Medical Clinic in Johnson City.

Doha, March 13, 2010: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar's leading healthcare provider, today hosted a celebration of the first GCC Nursing Day in Qatar in recognition of the importance of the nursing profession.

View full sizeDarla HavilandDarla Haviland, the Olmsted Falls school district nurse, is the Ohio PTA School Nurse of the Year award. She will be recognized at a formal awards banquet in Columbus next month....

A community nurse is running the Hastings Half Marathon after being inspired to take part by the suffering she sees each day. (10/03/2010 16:28:17)

MANSFIELD -- MedCentral Health System approached two universities about taking over its nursing school before Ashland University acquired it earlier this month -- and both The Ohio State University and Mount Vernon Nazarene University declined interest.

A fire has forced the evacuation of a nursing home in Melbourne overnight.

Rural nurse practitioners say legislation is stopping them from doing their job effectively

The Minister for Older People, Aine Brady, T.D, has urged nursing home residents and their families, to inform themselves about nursing home services and supports, particularly the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme. "The year 2009 was a time of fundamental change in the nursing home sector. In addition to the new Quality Standards and system of independent inspection for all nursing homes, the ...

Seven residents of a private nursing home for the elderly were killed in a pre-dawn fire in northern Japan on Saturday, police said.

Gina Gay Briones, a 44-year-old licensed vocational nurse from Monahans, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Junell to 63 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess pseudoephedrine.

Omnicare allegedly inflated the price it paid to buy a pharmacy company purportedly controlled by Chicago nursing home operators Philip Esformes and his father, Morris Esformes State authorities decline to move forward on civil allegations by whistle-blowers that one of the nation's largest pharmacy companies allegedly paid a multimillion-dollar kickback to Chicago nursing home operators ...

Katheryn Hill's family wants to know why she shared a floor at the nursing home with a convicted sex offender. "They let him roam the floor with everybody else," said David Boyd, the family's lawyer. "He had free rein to assault her."

The Minister for Older People, Aine Brady, T.D, has urged nursing home residents and their families, to inform themselves about nursing home services and supports, particularly the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme. "The year 2009 was a time of fundamental change in the nursing home sector...

Charges pending against man invovled in the brutal assault of a 30-year-old nurse.

TOKYO - Japanese police have arrested a nurse they accuse of deliberately breaking an elderly patient's ribs because she was stressed, and say she is a suspect in five similar cases.