Latest Nursing / Midwifery News From Medical News Today.

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Last news: May 2, 2008 12:00:00

The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) will celebrate International Midwives Day (IMD) this year by awarding an inaugural scholarship for a midwife to attend the 28th International Council of Midwives (ICM) conference in Glasgow. Ged Kearney, ANF Federal Secretary, said that the award acknowledges the important contribution and commitment shown by midwives to the health and wellbeing of mothers and babies in Australia and around the world. - [Read more]

SAGE, the worlds fifth largest journals publisher, will publish the Journal of School Nursing (JOSN) and the NASN Newsletter for the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) beginning in August 2008.JOSN provides a forum for advancing the specialty of school nursing, promoting the professional growth of school nurses, and improving the health of children in school. - [Read more]

A 55 year old nurse from Cheshire who illegally prescribed conflicting prescriptions for her husband has been struck off the Nursing & Midwifery Council register following the outcome of a hearing by the regulatory body in London on Friday, 25 April 2008. - [Read more]

A 45 year old Registered Nurse from Chadwell Heath, Romford has received a two year Caution by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) at a hearing held in London on Monday, 28 April 2008. Sherril Gurley was employed as a Staff Nurse at Basildon University Hospital in 2006 when she used her mobile phone to photograph a female patient as they sat on the toilet and as they left the bathroom. - [Read more]

Peyronies disease, a connective tissue disorder in which fibrous plaques develop in the soft tissue of the penis, occurs in about 1% of men. Patients usually seek treatment after experiencing painful erections and difficulty with sexual intercourse, issues which can be very emotional and stressful. D. Eileen Fisher and co-authors present a case study illustrating the clinical implications of Peyronies disease in the April 2008 issue of Urologic Nursing. - [Read more]

Over 100 registered nurses and supporters marched outside of Peninsula Hospital Center demanding thatmanagement get serious about resolving contract issues. The RNs at Peninsula are represented by the New York State NursesAssociation. Their most recent contract expired on April 30. They werejoined at an informational picket by nurses from Saint Vincents Manhattan,St. Johns Riverside, the former Cabrini Medical Center, SouthsideHospital, and St. - [Read more]

Relatively inexpensive interventions were effective in helping health care providers in Latin America improve the way they treat mothers during labor and delivery, reducing bleeding and sometimes saving lives of women during childbirth, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health study released in the New England Journal of Medicine. - [Read more]

Fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8 billion surplus, according to a survey of specialist and experienced nurses by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The survey of nearly 330 UK specialist and experienced nurses found a third said their organisation had a vacancy freeze in place and one in four have been at risk of redundancy in their current role, with 20 per cent still at risk. - [Read more]

The rural health workforce audit demonstrates clearly that nurses and midwives are "holding the fort" in rural and remote primary health care, yet professional boundaries, legislative barriers, and lack of support are hampering effective delivery of care. - [Read more]

Nine out of ten (1) accident & emergency (A&E) nurses have felt unduly pressured to meet the four-hour waiting target, according to a new survey from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The survey of over 500 frontline A&E nursing staff shows that the pressure to meet the four-hour waiting time has had negative consequences for the quality of patient care. Three quarters (75%) of nurses say that patients were regularly admitted to inappropriate wards (2) just to meet the target. - [Read more]

Maine Gov. John Baldacci (D) on Wednesday signed into law a bill (LD 2253) that gives state pharmacists the authority to provide certified professional midwives with certain medications for pregnant women and infants for administration during home births, the Bangor Daily News reports. - [Read more]

An increase in paperwork is preventing nurses from spending enough time caring for patients, according to a new survey for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The increasing burden of administration imposed on nurses means they spend more than a million hours every week on paperwork and clerical tasks . - [Read more]

The NHS is too focused on keeping down costs at the expense of quality patient care, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Today at its annual Congress, the RCN will be calling for a new era of targets and health reform that are care driven not cost driven. In his speech to Congress later today, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN will say: "Its time to shift the balance away from the target culture back to quality care. - [Read more]

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday approved a bill sponsored by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) that aims to encourage American Indians to pursue careers in health care, the AP/Billings Gazette reports. - [Read more]

Eight out of ten nurses admit they have left work feeling upset or distressed because they have not been able to ensure their patients have been treated with dignity. The survey of more than two thousand nurses by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) also found that nurses want dignity to be given a higher priority in the workplace, but they face significant obstacles to delivering the kind of care they would like. - [Read more]

As the widespread dearth of nurses spreads in healthcare where labor accounts for the largest portion of operating costs, organizations are turning to Kronos for Healthcare from Kronos® Incorporated for efficient management of the workforce through effective staff scheduling. - [Read more]

Desperate to hide the truth about a brutal attack on a labor conference in Michigan April 12, Andy Sterns Service Employees International Union is now peddling a video that does not show the violence…as proof that the attack never happened. Sterns denials contradict dozens of first-person accounts of journalists, non-partisan trade unionists, and the organizers of the conference. - [Read more]

The Joint Commission (TJC) will clarify language in a proposed Nursing Leadership standard, thanks to the efforts of ASHP and others who alerted TJC that the revision raised questions and concerns among health care providers. The existing standard states that nurse executives must coordinate institution-wide patient care programs, policies, and procedures that describe how patient nursing care needs are met. - [Read more]

A ruling by Alameda County Superior Court to vacate its temporary restraining order against the Service Employees International Union and its President Andy Stern on procedural grounds does nothing to justify any continued acts of threats, harassment, and stalking of registered nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee said Tuesday night. - [Read more]

Officials from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, the former affiliate of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, announced on Friday plans to construct a $43 million research and nursing building that will specialize in illnesses that disproportionately affect minorities, the - [Read more]