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- 8/25/2013
Home care review after double mastectomy's 'calamity of errors'
A surgical mishap that left a 52-year-old Alberta woman with two rolls of gauze festering inside her chest has prompted a provincial review of procedures and the creation of new rules for communications with home care. - 8/25/2013
Labor Day has a different meaning for many nurses
As Labor Day approaches, millions of registered nurses (RNs) and other health care workers risk potentially debilitating and career-ending injuries from the manual lifting, transferring and re-positioning of patients, despite availability of technology to protect workers and patients. - 8/25/2013
'Oh not again' says Kamloops widow after care home homicide
After the death of an elderly man at a Vernon care home on Sunday, a woman, whose husband died after he was attacked at a care home in Kamloops, says the province needs to do a better job of protecting seniors with dementia from violence at the hands of other patients. - 8/25/2013
The nurse practitioner is in
For centuries – from Florence Nightingale to ER – the medical professionals who treated patients have been nurses and physicians. - 8/25/2013
Techs gear up for fall conference
The fifth annual Breaking Barriers Conference for pharmacy technicians is set for September 21 in Windsor, Ontario. - 8/25/2013
Study: Solano County, California nurses earn most in U.S.
Nurses in Solano County are the highest paid in the United States, according to a new study. - 8/25/2013
B.C. nurses' union president calls for action on aggressive dementia patients
Weeks after two southern Interior seniors died from injuries they received while in residential care, the president of the B.C. Nurses Union is passing through on her regular summer tour. - 8/22/2013
NS latest province to regulate pharmacy technicians
On August 6, regulations and a new Pharmacy Act were approved, giving the Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists the authority to register and regulate Registered Pharmacy Technicians. - 8/22/2013
MEDEC warns hospitals about third-party vendor credentialing
TORONTO | Canadian hospitals that use the services of third-party vendor credentialing companies could be letting themselves in for legal and privacy problems, according the MEDEC, the national association representing medical technology companies.