Nursing & Residential Care Facilities

Solutions for painful breast-feeding

A new mother found that Mentholatum or Vicks VapoRub helped with painful breast-feeding. When I had a baby, I wanted to breast-feed, but I had a lot of problems with breast engorgement initially. My breasts were so swollen and...

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For many, impact of Saturday's vote hits close to home

By ADAM TAYLOR and KELLY BOTHUM • The News Journal • November 8, 2009 Liz Allen of Wilmington says the health care system in Delaware is failing her grown autistic son. That's why she was among thousands of state residents who...

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Theorists Enrich Nursing Profession

Hildegard Peplau & Florence Nightingale Considered Pioneers Florence Nightingale believed a patient's environment improved their health, while Peplau's theory taught that the relationship between nurse and patient is important....

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WSU nurses help out swine flu clinics

by KREM.com Posted on November 8, 2009 at 12:39 AM SPOKANE VALLEY -- The Spokane Regional Health District is calling in reinforcements from Washington State University's nursing program for their flu clinics. More than 1,000...

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Get `Em While They're Young

Forget college. Business is starting its talent hunt one step earlier: high school On the fourth floor of Norman Thomas High School in midtown Manhattan, past the metal detector at the front door, up the elevator that can be...

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Florida Hospital Dials Up iPhones For Nurses

iPhones are helping a Sarasota hospital connect its nursing staff via text messaging, and soon, VoIP telephony. By Mitch Wagner InformationWeek Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System, a hospital in Florida, plans to deploy iPhones...

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My Nursing Uniforms - The H1N1 Shot – To Get it or Not to Get it? That is the Question!

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of September 27, 2009 there have been more than 340,000 laboratory confirmed cases of the pandemic H1N1 influenza and more than 4100 deaths. It is still hard to confirm the...

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Nurses' phone calls help patients lower blood pressure in study

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov 06, 2009 (McClatchy Newspapers - A team of Duke University Medical Center doctors and nurses has found they can help lower patients' blood pressure with a do-it-yourself monitoring plan and bi-monthly phone...

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'Frontline' health jobs for the chop

Cost cuts at Palmerston North Hospital are starting to draw blood as nurses and care assistants learned this week how many jobs will go to save $700,000. A total of 6.2 full-time jobs for care assi...

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Valley VIP vets being honored in New Orleans

Don Pike of Struthers, left, shows his World War II the medals and stripes, and Sid Harris of Youngstown, right, a WWII vet who is legally blind, stands near a photo of himself with former President George W. Bush. The local...

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