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posted: Nov 12, 2009 2:36 PM PSTUpdated: Nov 12, 2009 2:37 PM PST   (NBC) - They thought they were getting protected against the swine flu, but dozens of Florida students were mistakenly given the seasonal flu vaccine instead.

It’s not a matter of what they want, but more of what they expect. Maybe it’s both? The bottom line is the nurse and physician have to work together as a team. Let’s face it, they both play very important roles when caring for the patient, so I won’t sit here and disseminate each of their responsibilities, duties, task, etc. I ...

U.S. researchers say they found nurses who worked in hospital intensive care units may get less regular sleep than other nurses and may commit more errors. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston assessed the overall sleep quality and vigilance among intensive care unit nurses at the beginning and end of their shift. They compared their findings with similar measurements ...

The increase in demand may well put an end to a simmering policy dispute over the circumscribed role of nurse practitioners in medical care. If tens of millions of new patients enter the health care system, it seems clear that nurse practitioners will be needed to perform many of the tasks now performed by physicians. Nurse practitioners are registered nurses who ...

Oct. 12- Five years ago, Sandy Steppig noticed a tremor in her left foot. No big deal. Except it didn't go away. "I had a suspicion," said Sandy, 56, a registered nurse at O'Fallon Family Medicine. Her mother-in-law had Parkinson's disease. So had some of her home-care patients who, depending on the severity of the degenerative nerve disease, had trouble walking, ...

Formal retention programs for the novice nurse are needed in healthcare organizations to successfully retain novice nurses.   The term mentoring is often confused with the term preceptor. Mentoring is a powerful effective tool that has potential to support individuals.  Mentoring programs along with preceptor programs are important for novice nurses within a healthcare organization. Often, mentoring programs leave out vital ...

Heather Sharp, a registered nurse in the Emergency Center at Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital in Humble, always had an interest in emergency medicine and loves the dynamics of the ER...

Nurse Ronnie Callahan's life is careening from one crisis to another in NBC's new medical drama "Mercy." Callahan -- well played by TV newcomer Taylor Schilling -- is just back from two bloody tours of duty in a military hospital in Iraq. She's separated from the husband who cheated on her but wants her back. And, like Britney Spears, she's not ...

The newest rash of television medical dramas have many of the same elements we've become used to: dramatic traumas, personal baggage and plenty of tawdry affairs. The difference between this batch and its predecessors, like "ER" and "Grey's Anatomy," is that this time around, the nurses are taking center stage instead of the doctors. For some in the nursing profession, it's ...

There's no telling how many souls Shari Hope Kelly escorted into the world during her decades as a labor and delivery nurse. Nor can one quantify the innumerable psyches she soothed as a rape crisis counselor and an instructor in social science at Pima Community College. And Kelly treated herself as compassionately as she did all others. She spent years thoughtfully ...

EBENSBURG -- Nurses at the Ebensburg Center held up signs and handed out leaflets along Route 22 in protest of possible funding cuts for mental health and mental retardation facilities because of the state's budget crisis. The demonstration Tuesday was part of a statewide effort by nurses at state hospitals and mental retardation centers to retain funding they say is necessary ...

Michael Jackson’s suspected death from propofol (Diprivan) on June 25 came just three days after the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists called on hospitals to more closely control the sedative/anesthetic because of an increase of abuse and diversion among healthcare professionals.

USC nursing student Sara Bandish gave her patient fluids, unaware he had a bowel obstruction. The next sound she heard turned her stomach, in more ways than one. SimMan 3G threw up. An incredibly realistic medical simulator, SimMan 3G is one of the stars of the new Clinical Simulation Lab at USC's College of Nursing. The high-tech manikin (the preferred medical ...

WASHINGTON -- The morning after addressing Congress, President Barack Obama seemed energized as he met a UPMC Shadyside oncology nurse whose tale he was using as part of a call for nurses' support in the health care debate. Theresa Brown described the president as "ebullient" as he embarked on an aggressive push yesterday to build on his speech to swing the ...

A petite former nurse who packed in her job to become a full- time kickboxer has clinched a European title. Joanne Calderwood only took up fighting because her mum thought it would be good for her to learn self-defence. But yesterday, she beat Spaniard Maria Curriki on points in Glasgow to claim the 53kg European crown in the martial art of ...

To the rest of the world, Saddam Hussein was a ruthless tyrant and an infamous international criminal. But to retired U.S. Army Nurse Robert Ellis, he was a client and daily companion who went by the code name "Victor"...

A cool job…what’s that? The best answer is that it’s a job that lets you do things you love – at work – and get paid well for it. You could also add great growth potential as a criteria, too. Today nursing’s outer limits are expanding hugely, with all kinds of creative, exciting possibilities. From mind-body medicine to leading the hospital ...

To respond to a shortage of nurses regionally and nationally, Rutgers University-Camden yesterday announced plans to start a school of nursing on its campus next school year. The campus already has an upper-division nursing major and department within its College of Arts and Sciences, with about 80 students enrolled. Creating a separate school, which must be approved by the university board ...

A nurse who was struck off the register for secretly filming care for the elderly at a Brighton hospital has been nominated for a national award. Margaret Haywood, 58, from Liverpool, has been shortlisted for the Nursing Standard's Patient's Choice Award..

Rhonda Bender, Nicholle Bieberdorf and Alice Thompson, nursing instructors from Northwest Technical College, got an up-close look at health care in Russia. During their tour of a regional health hospital, the nurses were asked to watch at his side as the doctor performed surgery on a patient. "We were blown away with how much we got to see," said Bender. From ...