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Distracting an airline pilot during taxi, takeoff or landing could lead to a critical error. Apparently the same is true of nurses who prepare and administer medication to hospital patients.
A new study shows that interrupting nurses while they’re tending to patients’ medication needs increases the chances of error. As the number [...]

Ontario has lost more than 2,000 full-time nursing positions — the majority in hospitals — over the past 12 months, the Ontario Nurses Association says.
“That is equating out to over four million hours of nursing care,” ONA president Haslam-Stroud said Monday. “The fact is that it’s across the province. It’s a [...]

Stubborn nurses who refuse to follow orders are being blamed for the temporary closure of Hastings’ Cranford Hospice in-patient service.
A special audit shows there are not enough highly skilled staff, and nurses are driving doctors away. Patient safety would be at risk if a “culture of blame and mistrust” was not resolved.
Staff [...]

Drivers should not be allowed to drink any alcohol before getting behind the wheel, nurses said yesterday.
They called for drinking even a single unit before driving to be made illegal.
Rod Thomson, vice chairman of the Royal College of Nursing, said: ‘Ideally it should be illegal to drink half a pint of beer.
‘People [...]

Television hospital dramas like Holby City are leading patients’ families to expect medical “miracles” with injury lawyers exploiting their unrealistic hopes, a nursing conference has heard.
Medical dramas fuelling a culture of litigiousness at the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) annual conference in Bournemouth.
Nurses also [...]

After four marathon days of negotiating, Temple University Hospital and its 1,500 nurses and allied health professionals reached an agreement Tuesday to end a 28-day strike that began March 31.
The employees plan to return to work at 7 p.m. Friday, assuming the proposed contract is approved during three ratification votes that [...]

A WOMAN found dead on the porch of her Sydney suburb home has been identified as the emergency department nursing manager at Royal North Shore Hospital.
Police said Michelle Beets had been “callously murdered”, The Daily Telegraph reports.
A couple out walking their dog discovered her body lying on the verandah [...]

NEW YORK – The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She’d already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do.
She swallowed it, lay on the couch with her eyes covered, and waited. And then it came.
“The world was [...]

MADRID – A team of surgeons has carried out the world’s first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.
It was the most extensive operation yet and the 11th known face transplant worldwide.
During the 24-hour surgery, [...]

The intellectual revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries led to a scientific revolution. With the discovery and exploration of new continents, an economic revolution evolved, after which nations became more interdependent through trade. The Industrial Revolution displaced workers from cottage craftsmen to factory laborers. With these changes came stressors to health. New illnesses, transmitted [...]