A Twin Cities nurse is out of a job after she allegedly used the same syringe on multiple patients. Allina Health said the nurse worked at a dermatology clinic at Allina Health’s Bandana Square clinic in St. Paul, and more than 160 patients may have been impacted since October.
Unionized nurses at hospitals in Pittsfield and Greenfield, Massachusetts, have called off separate strikes, scheduled for this week. They would have been the second at each facility in the last year.
A quarter of a million Americans die every year from sepsis, which is the body's reaction to overwhelming infection. This cascade of organ failure can be nipped in the bud if health care workers know it's ramping up, but that's often not easy to do.
A woman who used faked experience and credentials to get a job as a nurse at a St. Louis hospital was sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation and eight months of house arrest.
A grand jury has indicted two nurses and an aide on numerous charges, including felony murder in one case, in the death of an elderly patient who slowly died in front of them.
Lauren Bond, a traveling nurse, has held licenses in five states and Washington. She maintains a detailed spreadsheet to keep track of license fees, expiration dates, and the different courses each state requires.