Frustrated recruitment firms have warned that Australia’s public healthcare system is close to breaking point as a result of skills shortages that have left them struggling to fill ever-growing lists of vacancies.
Final details of the current government’s plans are yet to be revealed, but many doctors and at least one state health minister have expressed [...]

Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest health authority is taking its recruitment drive for new nurses to a part of the country with the highest salaries, believing it has a decent chance for success.
Eastern Health recruiters are in Alberta this week, paying particular attention to communities where expatriate nurses from Newfoundland and Labrador have settled.
The authority, which [...]

For the past 15 years, mission teams from Walker, Jefferson and Cullman counties have taken time from their busy schedules to go to Honduras to help meet some of its residents’ needs. What began with one team from Christ United Methodist Church with Dr. Tom Camp as the team leader has expanded throughout Alabama and [...]

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 [...]

A hospital pediatric unit in central Newfoundland has shut down for at least three months because of a critical shortage in nursing staff, a union official said Tuesday.
Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses’ Union president Debbie Forward said the hospital in Grand Falls-Windsor closed the unit Monday, and will stay closed “through to December, possibly indefinitely.”
Forward said [...]

For children who are somewhat apprehensive of that smiling woman in the nurse’s office, this book is for them. Marjorie Picard, R.N. (Ret.), a prize-winning artist, tells children there is nothing to fear in her new children’s book, Meet The School Nurse, which she penned and illustrated herself.
Schoolchildren will have to go to the school [...]

From upscale retail to gently used resale, high fashion for babies is easy to find and a growing market.
“The baby business has boomed,” said Amanda Farmer, owner of Bella’s Gifts in Springdale. “Everybody’s looking for something unique.”
Clothing is not the only industry catering to babies these days. Infants and their toddler counterparts can be chic [...]

Linda L. Lambert, 64, went to be with the Lord at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008, at home with her family by her side.
She was born Jan. 27, 1944, in Alton, the daughter of Fred and Anne (Magurany) Risler.
She married Ramon Lambert June 4, 1966, at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in Alton.
She was a [...]

For children who are somewhat apprehensive of that smiling woman in the nurse’s office, this book is for them. Marjorie Picard, R.N. (Ret.), a prize-winning artist, tells children there is nothing to fear in her new children’s book, Meet The School Nurse, which she penned and illustrated herself.
Schoolchildren will have to go to the school [...]

For children who are somewhat apprehensive of that smiling woman in the nurse’s office, this book is for them. Marjorie Picard, R.N. (Ret.), a prize-winning artist, tells children there is nothing to fear in her new children’s book, Meet The School Nurse, which she penned and illustrated herself.
Schoolchildren will have to go to the school [...]