To Lynn Lawrence of South Greensburg, the solemn ceremony a group of area nurses conducted at a Greensburg funeral home to honor her late mother’s long career as a nurse, was “absolutely beautiful.” ...

A ‘Perfect Storm’ For Nurses And Patients Throughout the past few decades, U.S. hospitals have faced cyclical shortages of nurses; in 2000 an estimated 126,000 hospital nursing positions were ...

Medicare will pay for skilled nursing facility services if a physician has deemed that a patient requires skilled nursing care and the following services will help patients meet their health goals. ...

However, a leaked Jan. 14 letter from Woodhouse Nepinak to Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, shows the national leader seemingly stepping back ...

More male caregivers are taking on the role of tending to a loved one – a role that may have traditionally fallen more on women's plates, a new study reports. The role also comes with its ...

Nurses hoping to reduce the rate of pressure ulcers in their hospitals are using a mannequin and self-made fake wounds to help teach colleagues about spotting and treating tissue damage in their ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Nurses and advocates rallied at the state Capitol Thursday for the need to improve patient care and strengthen Hawaii’s health care system. Representatives from Hawaii ...

The Royal College of Nurses (RCN) has said there is a “corridor care crisis” in hospitals across the UK, with testimonies from more than 5,000 nurses in the UK, including 500 from Scotland ...

COMMENT: Corridor care and temporary escalation spaces all sound innocuous as phrases, but they’re not. What it really means is nursing staff trying to care for patients in corridors ...

Frontline nurses are being forced to give care in corridors, cupboards and car parks on a daily basis, with patients being treated, toileted or even dying with no privacy, a shocking new report has ...