Nursing

Nurse, repairman, chief cheerleader

The one-on-one contact with residents at a ranch home is a "gratifying" challenge. Jesse Hollingsworth would be proud to be the face of the new elder- care industry. As the lone health care aide in charge of eight people in a...

Shush! It's quiet time in the hospital

Alec Gardner, 7, has his vital signs checked by UC Davis Medical Center nurse Christine Raymundo during "quiet time." FLORENCE LOW flow@sacbee.com Keeping company with her son William Isaacs during "quiet time" at UC Davis...

California educators, writers, and advocates call on SEIU President to stop retaliation

More than 50 prominent educators, writers, and worker advocates have sent a letter to SEIU President Andy Stern denouncing his ongoing campaign of retaliation against union members in SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW)....

Mexico's growing assisted-living market targets U.S. retirees

Nov. 16--SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico -- But the 60-somethings are also the new owners of a townhouse in Mexico's first assisted-living development aimed at the U.S. market, Cielito Lindo. Some developers are shifting their...

Moving up

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.16.2008 Sunquest names Batch as new VP Sunquest Information Systems Inc., which markets laboratory and diagnostic information systems, named Richard Batch as vice president of product...

UTEP health sciences go high-tech

EL PASO, Nov 16, 2008 (El Paso Times - For UTEP health-professions students, new technology will make them feel almost as if they were practicing on real people. A $1.5 million grant from the Paso del Norte Health Foundation...

Marvel Ghione spent 40 years as neonatal nurse

There's a lot of very interesting people in my Wise Owl Yoga class and I really enjoy talking with them. Recently I learned that one of the yoga ladies, Marvel Ghione, spent 40 years as a registered nurse working in the...

My thoughts: Drama SP “Kokuchisezu”

Fortunately, the connection was working well last night, there were only 2 small parts which I missed. I won't be writing the full storyline since my listening is poor. But there are lotsa screencaps and what I understood about...

Florence Wald, leader in US hospice, dies at 91

Florence Wald, a former Yale nursing dean whose interest in compassionate care led her to launch the first U.S. hospice program, has died. Wald was dean of the Yale University School of Nursing in the 1960s when she updated its...

Algeria launches campaign to encourage breastfeeding

The Algerian health ministry has undertaken a new campaign to inform parents about the benefits of breastfeeding. With fewer mothers nursing their children, health professionals grow concerned about the health risks of...

               

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Nurses and Global Health