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Nursing is the nation’s largest health care profession

Nursing is a career filled with endless personal and professional rewards. If you choose nursing, you are choosing to spend your life helping others, using skills that blend scientific knowledge with compassion and caring. There are few professions that offer such a rewarding combination of high tech and high touch. Nursing is the nation’s largest health care profession, with 2.6 million registered... 

Okinawa enjoys going outside in a wheelchair with a nurse

The number of Japanese living beyond 100 has more than doubled during the past six years to a record high of more than 36,000 this year, with women dominating the centenarian club, the government said Friday. Japan will have 36,276 people aged 100 years or older at the end of September, surpassing last year’s 32,295. Female centenarians comprised 86 percent of the total, the Health and Welfare... 

A unique way to stay ahead of the nursing shortage locally

Lincoln County Healthcare has created a unique way to stay ahead of the nursing shortage locally by teaming up with Central Maine Community College to offer Lincoln County’s first four-year degree program in nursing. Cathy Cole Director of Education presented details of the new program to the Miles Memorial Hospital Advisory Committee Aug 22. “An incredible amount of teamwork was required... 

Ms. Paramore is a Licensed Practical Nurse through Chauncey Sparks State Technical College

Tammy Paramore, LPN, Charge Nurse for Henry County Health and Rehabilitation Facility, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in all aspects of nursing. With 17 years of experience in her field, Ms. Paramore has been in her current position at Henry County Health and Rehabilitation Facility for 15 years. Throughout her career as a Licensed... 

St. Johns Hospital on Trial for Attacking RN Rights

The federal agency that oversees labor law has ordered St. Johns Health Center, located in Santa Monica and a part of the Catholic chain, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, to stand trial on charges that it violated the rights of its registered nurses. The National Labor Relations Board is prosecuting the hospital for unlawful harassment of nurse leaders, engaging in illicit spying of RNs, and interrogating... 

Task of registered nurse

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 by standard... 

The cost, choices of health care in final months

Health care in the last months of a person’s life is expensive. What kind of care do people want? What are the costs? Is more always better? What do we want? A Tompkins County survey in 2000 found that most people (74 percent of the 688 respondents) wanted to die at home; a strong second choice was a hospice residence. What actually happens? In 2007 in Tompkins County 36 percent of people died... 

Nursing Home Care Declines Under Private Investors

Two Harvard professors released a report today that challenges earlier studies showing that nursing home care declined after they were purchased by private equity investors. Nursing homes have been increasingly targeted as investment opportunities and government studies have found declines in patient care. Spurred by these reports and anecdotal evidence that these deals led to worsened quality of care,... 

Prestigious Magnet Designation Earned By Geisinger Medical Center

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has designated Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) as a Magnet hospital. The news came via a conference call to hospital administrators, nurses and staff who broke out with cheers and applause. GMC joins an elite group of only 15 Pennsylvania hospitals – and only 294 hospitals in the United States that have achieved Magnet status. More than 6,000 hospitals... 

Billy Graham Returns Home Following Hospital Observation

Evangelist Billy Graham has returned to his mountain home in Montreat, N.C. upon his release this afternoon from Mission Hospital in nearby Asheville following a brief stay. He was admitted for observation after he tripped over one of his three dogs and fell late Friday. Mr. Graham’s physicians said that he suffered no broken bones in the fall. They had offered him the choice of being released...