Health, Wellness and Fitness - Nursing

Latest News From The Daily Star

• Nursing job upgraded

  The government yesterday decided to upgrade the status of nurses to second from class-III employees and appoint 2,649 nurses against vacant positions to provide better services in the health sector.

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• Jubo League men go on rampage over recruitment

  Jubo League and Swechchasebak League activists yesterday went on the rampage at Joypurhat Nursing Institute and assaulted a number of staff protesting "irregularities" in appointment of health assistants in freedom fighter quota.

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• 57 prisons left without doctors

  Fifty-seven out of 67 jails across the country are running without a single doctor, while convicts with rigorous imprisonment are tasked with nursing the patients as no prison has a serving nurse.

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• 8 killed in attack on US nursing home

  A heavily-armed gunman shot dead eight people, many elderly and infirm patients, in a North Carolina nursing home Sunday, authorities said, announcing that the shooter was in custody.

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• Training academy for fake doctors, nurses

  A fake training academy has been found running in the capital and providing certificates to the students of medical, nursing and pathological courses for a period of over a decade.

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Latest News From Around The World

• Birmingham Business Journal

  Ohio's AdCare to purchase 2 Alabama nursing homes

  AdCare Health Systems Inc. plans to purchase two nursing homes in Alabama for $18.5 million.

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• ProPublica

  Reporting Recipe Conference Call Set for Thursday, March 25 at 2 p.m. EDT

  by Mike Webb , ProPublica -

  Earlier this month, Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber took the unique step of publishing a reporting recipe to show people how they could do their own investigations of nursing boards and other state regulatory and lice

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• WCAX

  Accused nursing home director keeps license

  The director of a Windsor County nursing home will keep her license while she fights criminal charges.

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• Big News Network

  "i Told Corey Haim He Was Gonna Die"

  last year that prescription drugs would kill him. Conaway spoke to E! News from a nursing facility in Sylmar, Calif., where he is recovering from hip surgery. The actor, who suffered a broken hip fro...

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• McKnights Long Term Care News

  Vaccinating nursing home workers does not help prevent flu from spreading, study finds

  Giving nursing home workers a flu vaccine is ineffective at preventing the spread of influenza among residents, a new Canadian study suggests.

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