| Heroin Addict Nurse Struck Off, UK A 56 year old mental health nurse from Sheffield has been struck off the Nursing & Midwifery Council register for receiving a police caution for possession of heroin.Helen West was working at a nursing home in July 2006 when she was arrested in the nursing home car park as she met her drug dealer. medicalnewstoday.com |
Preparing Nursing Students For The 21st Century Two Kent State nursing professors are collaborating on a project that will help prepare nursing students for 21st century practice. Barbara Yoost, M.S.N., R.N., C.N.S., C.N.E., and Lynne Crawford, M.S.N., R.N., M.B.A., are co-authoring a comprehensive McGraw-Hill first edition Fundamentals of Nursing textbook, expected to be published in early 2011. medicalnewstoday.com |
California Nurses Statement On The Board Of Registered Nursing The California Nurses Association concurred on the need for improved enforcement to protect patients affected by the handful of nurses alleged to have found to have committed egregious misconduct that put patients in jeopardy. But, CNA Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro emphasized, "much of the responsibility for the controversy now swirling around the Board of Registered Nursing lies directly at the feet of Gov. medicalnewstoday.com |
Also In Global Health News: Rwandan Nurses; AIDS 2010; Uzbek AIDS Advocate; Child Mortality In Mozambique; Meningitis Belt Rwandan Nurses To Give ART To Expedite Delivery Rwanda's Ministry of Health will soon give nurses the authority to give antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive patients, IRIN reports... mnt.to |
Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School Of Nursing Backs Recommendations To Advance Nursing Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON) supports the recommendations recently issued by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute of Medicine to advance the nursing profession in the United States. "The nursing profession will use these recommendations to overcome barriers and adapt to the increasingly complex needs of health care," said Vicki A... mnt.to |