USA TODAYNurses balance technological advances with old-fashioned carePoughkeepsie JournalYacoub, 72, who has worked at Cape Canaveral Hospital here for 36 years, is decades older than the 46-year-old average age of employed registered nurses. Some veteran nurses continue to work, but many more have hung up the scrubs for good or ...
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Chicago TribuneOak Park nursing home had no policy to deal with aggressive residentsWednesday JournalBy Devin Rose The Oak Park nursing home where a dementia patient was allegedly beaten last month by another patient in the same ward and later died did not have a policy in place to deal with ...
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Informed Patient: Helping Nurses Cope With Compassion FatigueWall Street Journal (blog)By Laura Landro New programs are underway to help nurses cope with compassion fatigue, an occupational hazard for caregivers that also puts patients at risk of substandard care, today's Informed Patient column reports. Though the intense emotional ...and more »
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Heritage NewspapersProfile of a Famous Nurse: Florence Guinness BlakeAtlanta Journal ConstitutionNurses have come a long way since modern nursing was established about 150 years ago. A job that once was limited to applying bandages and changing bedpans has been transformed into a multidisciplinary profession where nurses are not only caretakers, ...
