Anthonia Nwaorie spent years saving up thousands of dollars to open a medical clinic in Nigeria, where she was born. Finally, last October, she walked down a jet bridge at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport to board the plane to get there.
Maine’s first public health nurse (PHN) was Edith Soule. She is second from the right in the picture above. In 1920, Edith was named director of the newly created Division of Public Health Nursing and Child Hygiene. Two years later she asked Governor Percival Baxter for funding to hire more nurses who could travel throughout the state. In 1923, a second nurse was hired.
Tens of thousands of University of California nurses, pharmacists and radiologists joined a three-day strike Tuesday in support of university service workers who are demanding higher wages.
The former Puyallup nurse who was arrested for assault after two patients tested positive for Hepatitis C is denying claims that she shared a needle with patients. Cora Weberg, who worked in the emergency room at Good Samaritan Hospital, also said Tuesday that she does not believe she carries the virus.
When two women were shot standing outside Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital the other night — waiting for news of a relative who’d himself been shot earlier — a witness asked a Tribune reporter:
The nurse has been accused of intentionally infecting two patients at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup with hepatitis C. The nurse’s attorney says his client has been scapegoated by the hospital after patients became infected by some other means.