| Sloppy Record Keeping Gets Nurse Struck Off, UK A 34 year old nurse from Cambridge has been struck off the register after a hearing of the Conduct and Competence Committee panel for the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) found his fitness to practise was impaired. Joseph Williams was employed by Allied Healthcare as an agency nurse and was working at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely in October 2005 when he was charged with several accounts of poor record keeping. medicalnewstoday.com |
Not Just About Saying 'love' Or 'dearie'- NMC To Approve Guidance For Nursing Care Of Older People The NMC is set to approve this important new guidance on 3 December 2008 - which covers a wide range of topics such as communication, personal hygiene and maintaining privacy and dignity. Essential principles The guidance, to be published in 2009, will contain essential principles for the UK's 674,000 nurses, who represent 35 per cent of the NHS clinical workforce, to interpret their professional Code of conduct, performance and ethics as it applies to older people. medicalnewstoday.com |
Investigation Finds Problem Nurses Stay On Job Amid Nursing Shortage Propublica/The Los Angeles Times found that "the board charged with overseeing California's 350,000 registered nurses often takes years to act on complaints of egregious misconduct, leaving nurses accused of wrongdoing free to practice without restrictions ... medicalnewstoday.com |
Doctor Shortage Fuels Nurses' Push For Expanded Role Kaiser Health News staff writer Andrew Villegas writes about developments regarding the physicians shortage is leading to a push for an expanded role for other health professionals. "There are no doctors in rural Tyrrell County, N.C. There is only Irene Cavall, a licensed nurse practitioner and the sole source of primary care for 4,000 residents spread out over 600 square miles (Villegas, 2/22)... mnt.to |
Overseas Nurses Feel Their Skills Are Underused And They Aren't Valued Or Respected Many overseas nurses have negative experiences of living and working in the UK, particularly when it comes to feeling personally valued and professionally respected, according to the October issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing... mnt.to |