New Island Hospital to join Catholic Health Services (Bethpage, NY)
New Island Hospital, one of Long Island’s two remaining stand-alone community hospitals, is joining Catholic Health Services. The move, which will be formally announced Tuesday, will help protect the 203-bed nonprofit in Bethpage from the buffeting economic climate, said the...
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Shrinking Job Market for RN’s In New York State, Study Shows
The nursing job market in New York state, long thought to be recession-proof, is starting to feel the effects of the economic downturn, according to a study. Job opportunities for newly trained registered nurses are dwindling at a time when nursing...
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‘Fake’ Swine Flu Pandemic To Sell Vaccines? WHO Says “No Way”
GENEVA - The World Health Organization on Monday slammed as “irresponsible” critics who claim swine flu is a fake pandemic created for the benefit of drug companies. The U.N. health agency said the outbreak of a new strain of H1N1 influenza...
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Haitian nursing school with USA ties survives quake
A nursing school with Ann Arbor ties survived the 7-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday, early reports indicate. The professional nursing school, Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal University of Haiti, is 20 miles west of Port-au-Prince and 10 miles...
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Nursing Students Twice As Likely To Smoke
Nursing students are twice as likely to smoke as the general population, according to a new study. Researchers in Italy surveyed 812 new nursing students. They found that 44 percent of them smoke, a rate twice as high as the...
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Many Nurses Upset By New York State Mandated Flu Vaccines
The state Health Department is requiring that all direct care workers and those with whom they have contact be vaccinated for seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. “Although we encourage registered nurses to get a vaccination,...
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Nurses Association demands medical masks for swine flu protection
By Richard Sisk and Erica Pearson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Saturday, September 5th 2009 Nurses across the state are demanding medical masks that effectively protect them from swine flu. A day after scientists said health care workers who come in close contact with flu...
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Mom meets ‘the guy who received your son’s heart’
By MIKE ARGENTO Daily Record/Sunday News They were to meet at the Nittany Lion in the main lobby at the Hershey Medical Center. Wendy Phillips got there early. It was a big day for her. She was nervous. It was, she said, surreal. She...
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Nurses On Television, How Far Have We Come?
Between the short-lived but well-received 1980’s drama ‘Nurse’ and the current painfully realistic and often dark comedy ‘Nurse Jackie’ there have been a handful of prime time television shows which portrayed nurses and the nursing profession in an often negative...
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Experts Want Lower Tylenol Doses To Prevent Death And Injury
Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug Administration assembled 37 experts to recommend ways...
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