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The American Nurses Association (ANA) announces its endorsement of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in the 2008 Presidential Election. The ANA represents the interests of the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses. "As President, Barack Obama will bring real change to our health care system," said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR. "Nurses are consistently voted the most trusted profession by ...

NEPTUNE, N.J. — A nurse was charged with first-degree murder Monday for allegedly killing a terminally ill heart patient with a paralyzing drug last year. But her lawyer says Lorie Hentges "is guilty of nothing other than holding the hand of a dying man while his regular nurse ate lunch." A grand jury indicted Hentges, 39, in connection with the April ...

Abigail Lee Killian came into the world wailing, and with more hair than her mom has. It was the hair that Dr. Linda Moore, the obstetrician in charge of Brenda Killian's C-section, noticed first. Long dark hair, swirling in the clear amniotic fluid. And then, as the head emerged, a squall. "Before I could even suction out her mouth and nose," ...

Matthew Wiseman, a registered nurse who pilfered a dead patient’s credit card, was ordered to serve a month in jail on Wednesday. The 24-year-old man, who pleaded guilty to credit card theft and credit card fraud, used the card of Michael Puopolo in March to buy a laptop computer hours after the 75-year-old man was pronounced dead at Sentara Bayside Hospital. ...

PARIS — Hospital officials in France say a 59-year-old woman has given birth to triplets after going abroad to get donated eggs. The Paris public hospital network says the two boys and a girl weighed between 2.09 and 2.4 kilograms (4 pounds 9 ounces and 5 pounds 5 ounces) and measured between 46 and 47 centimeters (18.1-18.5 inches). An official at ...

A Las Vegas man says his Henderson physician turned him into a drug addict and caused him to overdose by prescribing him as many as 1,170 narcotic painkillers in a single month. The prescriptions by Dr. Kevin Buckwalter were so extreme, and the documen

ARROLLTON, Texas — Maria Martinez' attempt to land a cafeteria job at a suburban Dallas hospital got her arrested, jailed and deported. She did use a counterfeit social security on her application to Trinity Medical Center, but her relatives and supporters wonder whether the hospital overreacted by calling the police. During yet another year marked by several high profile immigration raids ...

One thing is for sure, Dan Danielson is happy - and it's contagious. Danielson, a nurse in the cardiovascular unit at Winter Haven Hospital, talks about the thrill of going back to school to study nursing with such enthusiasm, it makes you want to crack a book. Here, Danielson, a Winter Haven resident, explains how he ended up trading his handgun ...

A certifield nursing assistant accused of physically abusing an 80-year-old blind and mute man at a Bradenton care facility was arrested Wednesday. Gerda Tervil, 31, was arrested about noon at her Naples home by officers with the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. Tervil, formerly employed as a certified nursing assistant by Bradenton Health Care ...

When two medical flight helicopters collided near a Flagstaff, Ariz., hospital June 29, a promise died. It was a sacred promise from a Red Sox-loving father to his three young sons. On his 37th birthday in August, they would make the 2,100-mile pilgrimage to see the Red Sox play in Fenway Park. By all accounts, James W. Taylor Jr. was no ...

American consumers know not to toss old car batteries in the trash or pour motor oil down the drain, but those who want to get rid of unused drugs face a barrage of conflicting guidance: flush, don't flush, toss in the trash, don't toss in the trash. Often, there's no information at all. The most likely source of guidance should be ...

A nurse's aide wondering why a hospital curtain had been drawn around a patient's bed peeked through and saw a chaplain sexually assaulting the incapacitated 70-year-old, the Broward Sheriff's Office said in a report released Wednesday. The aide's account of the incident at the VITAS Hospice unit at University Hospital in Tamarac led to the arrest of Julio Arce, 53, of ...

BOLINGBROOK, Ill. - Officials say a suburban Chicago elementary school nurse has been charged with sexually abusing three teenage boys. Forty-nine-year-old Laura Obzera is charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Police say she's a health assistant at Wood View Elementary School in Bolingbrook. Commander Tom Ross says Obzera apparently didn't meet the boys, aged 13 to 17, through ...

CHICAGO - A government agency has dropped plans for a study of a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children. The National Institute of Mental Health said in a statement Wednesday that the study of the treatment — called chelation — has been abandoned. The agency decided the money would be better used testing other ...

COLUMBIA - Anna Bell "Wendy" Wendelburg Zeigler began work at 6:30 that December morning in 1944, in a sprawling Gothic hospital in Paris, to pandemonium, blood and screams. Ambulances crowded the large, snow-covered plaza of Hospital Lariboisiere on Rue Ambroise Pare. Stretchers with bloody men jammed the corridors. Every bed was filled with wounded soldiers from the Battle of the Bulge. ...

Nearly every night, Martin Hornung's nightmare unfolds to the same haunting strains. Of Auschwitz. Of screaming voices. Of scenes he would rather not relive in the light of day. "I'm almost afraid to go to sleep," the 86-year-old retired computer engineer said. The horrors that revisit Hornung in the dark are common among Holocaust survivors and are a reason why he ...

WASHINGTON - Cancer patients will soon be able to use a medication patch to ease the debilitating nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy. The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it has approved the first anti-nausea patch for chemotherapy patients, intended to provide relief for up to five days. The patch, called Sancuso, is worn on the arm and delivers a widely ...

NEW YORK - New data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of 9/11 suggest that as many as 70,000 people may have developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the terrorist attacks. The estimate, released Wednesday by New York City's Department of Health, is based on an analysis of the health of 71,437 people who enrolled ...

Following a car accident in 1996, all Sandra Mattingly want­ed was the chance to continue taking care of hospital patients and making their day a little brighter. She was given that chance and is making the most of it. Mattingly, a registered nurse at Prattville Baptist Hospital, has been dubbed the "Singing Nurse" by patients who have heard her break out ...

The shortage of registered nurses is caused by a variety of factors. As people age, their likelihood of developing chronic diseases and disabilities increases, thus producing a need for registered nurse services. Nurses themselves are aging. The average age of a working registered nurse in 2000 was 43.3. With fewer and older nurses entering the profession and an existing aging RN ...

You are ready to apply for that dream job and have everything you need from a stellar resume to a suitable suit. Although you may think you’ve covered all your bases, did you know that many employers Google potential employees to gather more informatio

THETFORD, Vt.—Carmen Tarleton cannot see. For now, her eyes are sewn shut. She can hear, but only out of one ear. She can speak, but her diction suffers because of her disfigured mouth. She can stand, but she uses a cane just in case. Fifteen months after a lye attack nearly killed her, the 40-year-old nurse and mother of two considers ...

U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation. These discarded medications are expired, spoiled, over-prescribed or unneeded. Some are simply unused because patients refuse to take them, can't tolerate them or die with nearly full 90-day supplies of multiple ...

By CAROL SMITH P-I REPORTER Liz Browning nudged open the unlocked door of her son's Capitol Hill apartment and recoiled at the floor blanketed with garbage -- drifts of unopened bills, mounds of cigarette butts, rotting food and feces. RELATED ST

It has taken only a couple of decades for Chari Bender to find her niche as a nurse. Bender started her career in a neonatal intensive care unit, and dabbled in an outpatient surgery center and a school. She also took time off to raise her two children. About a year ago, with her kids getting older, Bender wanted to return ...

ou've read time and time again, I'm guessing, about how high school and college kids are being warned about what they put on their Facebook and MySpace pages. Writing about your drunken binges is not the way to the fast track; schools and employers have a

When her father’s cancer was diagnosed in 1996, Brenda Jo Gillund knew that he was in for a difficult and challenging time. A nurse, she knew her father’s treatment could involve chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery. It did. And it involved something more, something that caused her to examine the nonmedical circumstances of cancer patients and how those might affect their ...

SALEM, Ore. - The Oregon State Hospital's "J" building, made famous in the 1975 Jack Nicholson film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was opened for a weekend tour to visitors who loved the look inside but often wondered how the patients could have lived there. State employees guided about 200 people through vacated, decaying sections of the building and the ...

CHICAGO - Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system. The results of a new survey being published Wednesday suggest more medical students, many of them saddled with debt, are opting ...

My Late-Term Abortion President Bush's attempt to ban partial-birth abortions threatens all late-term procedures. But in my case, everyone said it was the right thing to do — even my Catholic father and Republican father-in-law. By Gretchen Voss | J

LOS ANGELES — A man pleaded guilty to recruiting and paying homeless people to pose as phony hospital patients in a scheme that billed government programs millions of dollars in unnecessary health services. Estill Mitts, 64, admitted Thursday in U.S. District Court to running a Skid Row assessment center called the 7th Street Christian Day Center. There, homeless people were recruited ...

Eighty-four-year-old Helen Husa and son Carl got the idea at the same time in December while touring Arlington National Cemetery. A guide pointed out a section devoted to the burials of military nurses, and they knew what had to be done. "I looked at him, and he looked at me - and we nudged one another," said the Maple Shade woman. ...

Picture a day in the life of a school nurse. If you imagine she spends the day applying Band-Aids, handing out Ritalin and calling the parents of feverish kids, you got one thing right. The nurse probably is a "she" — as are 99% of her colleagues in the National Association of School Nurses. But her job is much more demanding ...

PHILADELPHIA — Some 55 prostate cancer patients were given too-low doses of radiation treatment at the local Veterans Affairs hospital in the past 6 1/2 years, and federal investigators want to know why. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Tuesday it is inspecting the Philadelphia VA Medical Center's facilities and procedures to figure out what went wrong and how to prevent it ...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission charged five companies with making false and misleading claims for cancer cures and said Thursday that it has reached settlements with six others. "As long as products have been sold there has been somebody out there selling snake oil to consumers," said Lydia Parnes, director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection. She said the ...

A Nancy Nurse doll still is prized by Donna Klaput Gardner. The mid-1950s-vintage doll, which was a gift to her as a 5-year-old, reminds her that she always wanted to be a nurse. Now, after completing a 22 1/2-year career as a Navy nurse, she is continuing to teach nurses and loves it. She also has been presented a prestigious award ...

TAMPA — Robin Lumley, childless, overweight and unmarried at 46, arrived at an emergency room 2 1/2 years ago complaining of terrible abdominal pain. Nurses documented her symptoms and a doctor ordered tests. When Lumley said she needed to use the restroom, they let her go. A short while later, the medical staff at University Community Hospital in Carrollwood found ...

The state has ordered Massachusetts hospitals to stop turning away ambulances when their emergency rooms are overcrowded, a decades-old practice that can delay treatment and has upset patients denied care at their usual hospitals. Officials at the state Department of Public Health said yesterday that hospitals would in almost all cases have to discontinue temporary ER closures, called "diversion," by Jan. ...

ALBANY - The New York state Department of Health is denying a Queens hospital's request to continue operating as a health care facility. Parkway Hospital was ordered to close by a commission put together by former Gov. George Pataki. The so-called Berger Commission recommended closing nine hospitals, restructuring 50 more and cutting nearly 3,000 nursing home beds. The plan was to ...

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Thursday proposed stronger job protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions because of religious or moral objections. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said that health care professionals should not face retaliation from employers or from medical societies because they object to abortion. "Freedom of conscience is ...

RALEIGH - A patient with a history of violence severely beat a nurse at a state mental hospital in Butner early Monday, breaking bones in her face and pulling out clumps of hair. John Umstead Hospital was cited by federal regulators in December for the failure of administrators to control violent incidents involving staff and patients. The assault comes amid concern ...

WASHINGTON - Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field. The new type of stem cells could be useful for growing personalized replacement tissues, according to a study in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. But because of ...

ATLANTA - A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect. Medicare is already considering paying for this cheaper, less intrusive option that could persuade more people to get screened for colon cancer. And some experts believe the new method may boost the 50 percent ...

BCC is the most common malignancy in dermatology. One in 5 people in North America will develop BCC in their lifetime. Once diagnosed with a BCC, there is a substantial chance of a subsequent lesion. BCC is found mostly on the sun-exposed areas of the head and neck, but can be found anywhere on the body where the patient had ...

BROOKSVILLE - A home care nurse accused of bilking senior citizens will pay back $39,000 during the next 10 years of her probation period. Barbara Smith, 62, chose a plea bargain in circuit court on Wednesday instead of her trial date today. Her original charge of exploitation of the elderly was changed to two counts of organized fraud to provide her ...

SCC is also common in North America. Approximately 1 in 20 people are expected to develop a SCC in their lifetime. SCC is found in the same distribution as BCC, with the highest prevalence on the head and neck. Older patients who drove vehicles during their working years will have a predominance of cancers on the left side of their ...

Ready, Willing, and Able: Preparing Nurses to Respond to Disasters Laura A. Stokowski, RN, MS Medscape Nurses. 2008; ©2008 Medscape Posted 09/05/2008 Nurses Want to Help After a few years, most nurses will develop a certain level of comfort

I am in total surprise that the Joint Commission has decided to focus on nurse harassment and bullying, along with lateral violence in the workplace. We all know that it exists. But, is it the role of a national agency that accredits hospitals and care standards to address this ongoing, worsening problem? Is the Joint Commission going to create a standard ...

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Children's Fund said Friday the number of children who die before the age of five has declined by 27 percent over the last two decades, and the rate is expected to continue falling. According to new UNICEF figures, there were 68 deaths per 1,000 live births around the world in 2007 compared with 93 deaths per ...