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(Pittsburgh Post Gazette) Patricia Thompson was stunned when representatives from Allegheny County showed up at her workplace to give her the county’s first Exemplary Employee award.
The award was created to recognize exceptional achievements by a county employee or employee group. [Read more...]
(FOX) You’re sitting in the doctor’s office or maybe a local clinic that’s part of your health insurance network, and in walks a white-coat-clad professional. Your impulse may be to say, “Good morning, doctor” — but it’s becoming more likely that the person who’s ready to attend to your medical needs is no doctor, but a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. [Read more...]
(TV Equals) Oh how I wish I could forget the sight of the crazed patient’s butt crack as he destroyed the pharmacy, which was the result of Gloria forgetting to get him a security escort. Thanks, Nurse Jackie! Gloria may have forgotten the escort, but she certainly didn’t forget that Jackie was a recovering addict. Seriously, what is with Gloria? [Read more...]
(USA Today) A pediatric nurse said Friday she was in the right place at the right time to revive a 14-year-old girl who collapsed while dancing in the upper deck during a Kansas City Royals game. [Read more...]
(FOX) Marilyn Tavenner, a nurse who’s been running Medicare and Medicaid on an acting basis, was confirmed 91 to 7 by the U.S. Senate to formally head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which also administers government health benefits to about 100 million Americans. [Read more...]
(CNN) At the top of a flight of stairs with no elevator in sight, registered nurse Katarzyna Kaseja leans over the rickety metal bars of a crib. Her 4-year-old patient, a ventilator tube fastened to his throat, reaches out to take her hand.
“It’s hard to work as a nurse in Poland,” said Kaseja, 25. Since she began her career at the Specialized Hospital for Mother and Child in the western Poland city of Poznan, little funding and outdated machinery have only been part of the problem. [Read more...]
(Times Tribune) As a nurse, Lynn Heard has helped countless patients through the years with her tender care and calming demeanor. She also credits nursing with getting her through her own struggles in life.
The Covington Twp. resident has served as school nurse at North Pocono High School (also her alma mater) for 16 years, and as a family nurse practitioner with the office of Dr. Eugene Harasym for 15 years. [Read more...]
(Columbus Telegram) Six years ago our daughter was a patient in the intensive care unit.
This month she graduates with a nursing degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
We are so proud of her, of course. I know Emily must have a real passion for nursing because, frankly, a work wardrobe consisting of cartoon-covered smocks and running shoes doesn’t really fit my fashionista daughter. [Read more...]
(Mail Online) The nurses who treated one of the alleged Boston bombers have told how they could not stop themselves from soothing him with the words: ‘I am really sorry, hon’.
Medical staff said that just like any other patient they were reflexively affectionate to. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev they ‘did not see as a terrorist’. [Read more...]
(abc27) A bill to increase the development and expansion of community-based health care clinics has unanimously passed the Pennsylvania Senate.
The legislation, Senate Bill 5, now goes to Governor Tom Corbett, who included a $4 million appropriation for the program in his 2013-14 budget proposal. The measure won unanimous approval in the House of Representatives last week. [Read more...]
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