The debate in Washington about health care changes is generating a lot of heat and strong language, dividing families and turning neighborhood barbecues into backyard brawls. But on one point, there's little debate: Workers will pay more for health insurance next year.

A patient at the Memorial-area emergency department barely warms a seat in the waiting room before a nurse beckons and starts asking questions. Beyond the desk and behind a thin curtain, the nurse checks the patient's blood pressure. During a chat, she assesses the medical problem. To save time, she may process a urine sample instead of sending out for lab ...

  RNReport Card bringing low-tech innovations to New Nurses and Nursing Students Everywhere April 13th, 2009- Marsha Elson-Joseph, BSN, a graduate of the University of Miami School of Nursing and Lisa Elson, RN a recent graduate of Miami Dade College School of Nursing are bringing low-tech innovations to the Nursing profession. After just two years as an Oncology nurse, Marsha has earned ...

EL PASO -- Ruth Sagredo Velasco, the nurse practitioner who was gunned down Saturday while driving in her sister's funeral procession in Juárez, allegedly was the target in the deadly ambush, but her death did not involve drugs, her lawyer said Monday. The slayings of Velasco, her sister, Cinthia Judith Sagredo Escobedo, and her father, Francisco Maria Sagredo Villareal, were allegedly ...

In the past six years, eight people from Austin and one from Luling racked up 2,678 emergency room visits in Central Texas, costing hospitals, taxpayers and others $3 million, according to a report from a nonprofit made up of hospitals and other providers that care for the uninsured and low-income Central Texans. One of the nine spent more than a third ...

HOUSTON – As the cake candles flickered, relatives and friends singing to seven surviving octuplets on their 10th birthday Saturday had to pause and consider after "happy birthday to ..." They continued, "... dear everyone. Happy birthday to you!" The five girls and two boys, part of the world's first set of octuplets born alive, stood behind their large, square cake ...

By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer 45 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer. ADVERTISEMENT

About 200 former surgery patients at Boulder Community Hospital have been told they may have been given saltwater instead of a painkiller, 9News reported Thursday night. The hospital and Boulder police are investigating a nurse the hospital says was stealing the powerful drug Fentanyl. A hospital spokesman told 9News the nurse had been replacing the drug in the vial with sterile ...

A gang of female bandits dressed in nursing costumes is stalking and targeting women and elderly shoppers at Central Florida businesses.

Tony Dewitt was not going to win his battle with prostate cancer. He knew it. His wife, Phillis, knew it. The people at the hospital where she worked knew it. But still, Phillis was taken aback when her supervisor asked whether Tony planned to seek hospice care. "He's not ready to give up," Dewitt said she responded. When her boss raised ...

As more medications become available on an outpatient basis, the boom in infusion centers bodes well for nurses wanting to work in this niche. Infusion therapy is the intravenous administration of antibiotics, chemotherapy, pain control, nutritional support or other medicines. There are infusion centers in doctors' offices, hospitals and free-standing clinics. And some nurses provide infusion as part of home health ...

Nev. clinic creates hepatitis C scare Wed Feb 27, 8:47 PM ET A clinic may have infected a handful of patients with hepatitis C — but about 40,000 more should be tested for that virus, as well as for HIV, health officials said Wednesday. Six p

National Guard and reserve combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to develop drinking problems than active-duty soldiers, a new military study suggests. The authors speculate that inadequate preparation for the stress of combat and reduc

The news in recent weeks has been jolting to many in a profession that most considered recession- proof. Licensed professional nurses have been laid off in significant numbers at area hospitals and clinics. "Students do question, 'Will there be a job for me when I graduate?'" said Cheryl Pratt, regional dean of nursing for Rasmussen College. The answer, said Pratt and ...

Nurses perform much of the patient care that TV shows attribute to the much more glamorous profession of doctor. It is an age-old problem, the clash of cultures and tug of war over credit between two professions working in close quarters toward an identical goal. No doubt there are paralegals who feel shortchanged by all the lawyer shows on TV, too. ...

Betty Beeson says the hardest thing about being a driver for the American Cancer Society's Road to Recovery program is she doesn't get called on enough. Not enough people know about it, she says. Road to Recovery is a free program for cancer patients. The American Cancer Society matches patients with drivers who take them to and from the hospital for ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 - March has officially been declared Red Cross Month by order of a Presidential Proclamation signed by President Barack Obama today, marking the 66th time the month of March has been celebrated in honor of the organization. The Red Cross has continued to serve those suffering from large- and small-scale disasters. The organization is best known for its ...

The state agency responsible for inspecting 50 surgery centers in Nevada did not perform those reviews as often as required, including at two Southern Nevada facilities where problems with reusing syringes and other unsafe practices have recently been unc

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.—An operating room nurse testified that she was ignored when she questioned the drugs given a dying patient and the presence of a transplant surgeon accused of trying to hasten his death. Jennifer Wiley said she was told the transplant team would remain outside the operating room until Ruben Navarro was declared dead. State law prohibits transplant teams ...

Each year, Central Indiana's four major nonprofit hospitals receive tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks in return for providing outreach programs and care for the poor. But those hospitals' current level of "charity care" - care for which they expect no payment - raises questions about whether they deserve those tax breaks and whether measures should be taken to ...