continues to clash with management primarily over nurse-to-patient ratios in the hospital’s medical-surgical unit. The nurses are asking for a 1-to-5 ratio — or one nurse to five patients in ...

“It’s a slap in the face!” said Stacy Matsuyama, a nurse at the Medical Surgical unit for 17 years. “Management is giving the scab nurses one-to-two nurse-to-patient ratios while our usual ...

Surgical nurses, who typically spend more time in the operating room than the surgeons, are leading the push to eliminate the hazardous plumes. Already 18 states, including neighboring Georgia ...

8 Although estimates vary widely, the cost of recruiting and training one new nurse for a medical-surgical floor is usually equal to 100 percent of a nurse’s annual salary—$42,000–$60,000 ...

A 46-year-old man has diffuse musculoskeletal pain and swollen joints, as well as an erythematous rash in his intragluteal cleft and a scaly rash on his scalp.

Leaders have been told urgently to rank thousands of their employees who are in probationary periods, with as much as 40 percent to be deemed not mission-critical.

Methods Women currently employed outside the home and trying to get pregnant (n=1739) in the Nurses’ Health Study 3 cohort (2010–2014) were included in this analysis. Work schedule and physical labour ...

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