A nurse who allegedly failed to properly attend to a nursing home patient who suffered a fatal fall was allowed to surrender his license to the state for three years and then reapply for reinstatement. But he did not agree to the resolution by the Jan. 8 deadline.
Most people are familiar with some form of triage: When you go to an emergency room, you first sit down with a triage nurse who records your symptoms, takes your vital signs and assesses the urgency of your medical need.
The company that owns Doctors Medical Center and two other hospitals in the Northern San Joaquin Valley will hold events this week to recruit nurses and other allied health professionals.
A retired nurse was among those on Southwest Flight 1380 who tried in vain to help save a New Mexico woman on Tuesday. Peggy Phillips was one of several passengers who said they saw Jennifer Riordan partially sucked through a window after an engine exploded and the plane had to make an emergency landing.
The Introduction to the Health Care Professions course at Community College of Philadelphia is packed with aspiring nurses. There’s the man in his mid-20s who returned to school after years of working low-wage food service jobs.
Westmoreland County will give out signing bonuses to new nurses hired at the government-owned nursing home in Hempfield as part of an incentive program enacted Thursday to overcome staff shortages.