Nurses interact with people during some of their most vulnerable moments and in highly personal ways. It’s why they often find themselves confronted with challenging ethical dilemmas that require ...
DULUTH — Nurses in Duluth negotiating a labor contract with a local hospital say a proposed code of conduct could be used to silence or intimidate employees. The code proposed by St. Luke's Hospital ...
The couple looked over at what they had been told was their stillborn baby. But as the baby, born at 22 weeks, lay on the warmer, the parents could see that the heart was still beating. Doctors knew ...
On any given day, the average nurse uses his or her knowledge, training and ethical standards to make countless moral decisions regarding patient health. Both minor issues and complex emergencies must ...
According to a senior official from the Nursing and Midwifery Services at Dohms, the new rules will reflect standarised policy development regarding the profession. He also said that a committee had ...
Violators could get booted from the prestigious Boston hospital. With violence against healthcare workers reaching epic proportions, Mass General Brigham Hospital has launched a campaign to curb abuse ...
In the world of TV sensationalism, the moguls have hit on a new venue, the flawed nurse. It was bad enough having nurses portrayed as bimbos or minimal characters, but now we have “Nurse Jackie” and ...
An inmate in a correctional facility was diagnosed with hepatitis C and prescribed a 28-day course of sofosbuvir tablets. Because of the high cost of the medication (approximately $1000/tablet), the ...
Karen Dunn, 67, calls the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to remove nursing as a professional degree “mind-boggling.” The decision resembles “a slap in the face,” according to Dunn, a ...
Local doctors and nurses say they must stick to their ethics and stay out of the execution chamber, even if it means crippling California's ability to carry out capital punishment. "We know where our ...
TOPEKA (KSNT) — An administrative law judge has ruled against a local nurse, who was taking the Kansas Board of Nursing to court. Back in 2024 Amy Siple, a nurse from Wichita, was accused of ...