Objective: Poor communication and collaboration between members of a patient’s health care team can result in medical errors and poor quality of care. The purpose of this study was to assess communication and consensus regarding patient care goals between members of the health care team (physicians, registered nurses [RNs], and patient care technicians [PCTs]) caring [...]

Each province or territory of Canada has an obligation to make sure the person may request for registration and pagpalisensiya their province / territory (for example, a graduate of learning nursing outside of Canada) is responding to an acceptable standard of competence before they begin work. The purpose of assessment for Registered nurse of Canada [...]

When Christy Jones, now 35, was a sophomore at Western Kentucky University in 1992, she witnessed a bad accident at a friend’s house.
“I felt helpless and powerless,” she said, sitting at a table in the nurses’ lounge at Greenview Regional Hospital. “And that’s when I decided to become a nurse.
“It fits me.”
While the Allen County [...]

Ethna (Cooper) Duff died at home on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, after a courageous three-year battle with cancer. She was 70.
Born in Morristown on Nov. 17, 1937, to the late Patrick J. and Mary (Bolger) Cooper, she was a resident of North Branch since 2003.
Previously, she was a resident of the Gladstone section of Peapack-Gladstone [...]

Registered nurse include plan provide and evaluate preventative, curative and rehabilitative care for patient discused in a wide types of setting.these type of setting included in public and private hospital, nursing homes.
Registered nurse works in following tasks avalaible below:
- Giving support, physical and technical nursing care for patient in hospital or home.
- Nurse treat patients [...]

A Middletown registered nurse faces charges of forgery and possession of a controlled substance after she allegedly wrote prescriptions for herself and friends.
Along with forgery and possession of a controlled substance, prosecutors charged Ruth Ann Alexander, 45, with receiving stolen property and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or deceit, both Class D felonies.
Detective Bret [...]

The union representing registered nurses at the VA Medical Center is planning to picket outside the Fort Hill Avenue facility later this month.
They will protest what they say are unfair working conditions for the approximately 100 RNs who work there.
At issue is mandatory overtime, methods of scheduling evening and overnight shifts, and the way nurses [...]

Tribute: Lucia Monica Lewis was born in Chicago to Anthony and Anne Sutkus. She was raised and attended schools in Waukegan, Ill. In 1940 she graduated with a nursing degree from Loyola University.
In 1941, she married Everett Lewis and raised her family in North Chicago.
A registered nurse for more than 50 years, Mrs. Lewis [...]

The Auckland rest home, where a patient was gagged with tape to keep her quiet, will be closed from Friday.
The Ministry of Health has served closure orders on the Belhaven rest home in Epsom and a cessation order on its nurse manager, which means she cannot provide health services.
The manager, a registered nurse, has also [...]

A registered nurse who blames a Hamilton surgeon for the loss of sight in her right eye has appealed to provincially appointed health-care watchdogs, asking that they ratchet up what, in her opinion, was a slap on the wrist given the doctor by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Janice Gilners, 50, told the Health [...]