— “It will help patients in rural areas get surgery faster!” ...

A woman claiming she was a patient of a bogus nurse now in prison is suing the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) and a ...

Maria College is launching a new Associate of Applied Science degree this fall. It will be in Surgical Technology, aiming to ...

In a comparison study, benefits of nurse-led preoperative counseling and follow-up care was significantly greater compared with surgeon-led or no counseling models.

North Idaho College has been named the No. 1 college in Idaho for surgical technology by College Factual, a website focused ...

Better labor and delivery staffing during labor predicts lower cesarean birth rates, according to a study published online in ...

The domino effect caused by a shortage of anesthesiologists in Canada could be improved if the country allowed specially trained nurses to provide anesthesia care, something they do in the United ...

Leaders say the technology will allow experienced nurses to provide 24/7 care without physically entering the room, improving ...

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 ...

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 ...

A violinist plays for her father. A singer takes requests. In hospitals and hospices, bedside performers offer a new kind of ...

“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 ...