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A onetime licensed practical nurse in Minnesota has had his license revoked after state officials ruled that he entered suicide chats sites on the Internet and encouraged people to kill themselves, two of whom did just that after communicating with him. In an order in June by the Minnesota Board of Nursing, William Melchert-Dinkel, 47, had his license taken away after the board accepted an extensive investigation about Melchert-Dinkel's several years of participating on suicide websites. His license had been suspended by the board in February. The "findings of fact" collected by a state administrative law judge and accepted by...

FORT LAUDERDALE - The Broward General Medical Center is urging patients to get tested for Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and the HIV virus after it was revealed that a nurse re-used supplies when administering IV fluids during stress tests. (Snip) 1,800 patients treated by the nurse may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis (/snip) The nurse, identified as Qui Lan, was suspended pending the outcome of a full investigation. Lan, who is out of the country, has resigned and been reported to the Florida Board of Nursing. Ft. Lauderdale police have said no charges will be filed against Lan...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — More than 1,800 patients treated by one nurse at a South Florida hospital may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis. Broward General Medical Center said Monday the nurse reused saline bags and tubing during cardiac stress tests involving the injection of fluids. The hospital has sent letters to all 1,851 people who may have been affected from January 2004 to early September. Hospital officials say the risk of exposure is low, but all affected patients should be tested for HIV and hepatitis B and C. The nurse, who has not been identified, resigned and was...

This poster started appearing in Los Angeles. I heard rumors about it showing up in Atlanta, too.

It was a torridly hot summer in Nebraska that August, when I received the last letter from my mother. I was in Lincoln, about to become a sophomore in college. We wrote each other frequently, pretty close to nearly every day. The other siblings had it much easier, as they could just pick up a telephone and chitchat with her, a means not available to me. I had just moved, into a "party house" with six other college classmates, and she had not yet gotten my new address, and so sent the letter to the place where I worked, receiving...

NORWALK, Conn. — A Connecticut woman who authorities say spent more than $2,000 to stage a dinner honoring her as "Nurse of the Year" has been charged with pretending to be a nurse at a doctor's office. Fifty-six-year-old Betty Lichtenstein of Norwalk was charged Thursday. Prosecutors say Dr. Gerald Weiss believed Lichtenstein was a registered nurse, especially after she was named the Connecticut Nursing Association's "Nurse of the Year" in 2008. According to the arrest warrant, that association does not exist.

HILLAH, Iraq, Aug. 5, 2009 – In the United States, patients typically see a nurse or technician first at a doctor’s appointment, but the same does not hold true in Iraq. Army Lt. Col. Lori L. Trego, department director for the 10th Combat Support Hospital’s deployed combat casualty research team, uses a mannequin to teach an Iraqi nurse how to resuscitate an infant at Babil Maternity Hospital in Iraq’s Babil province, July 28, 2009. American nurses are mentoring Iraqi nurses so they can assume more responsibilities. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Bethany L. Little  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available....

Swine flu claims NorCal nurse, 2 new moms Associated Press - July 31, 2009 1:14 PM ET SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Health officials say a Sacramento-area cancer nurse's death is the first among California health care workers related to swine flu. Mercy San Juan Medical Center spokesman Bryan Gardner says officials at the Carmichael hospital do not know if 51-year-old Karen Ann Hays contracted the virus on the job. She died July 17. In the San Francisco Bay area, two new mothers died from the virus, also known as H1N1, shortly after giving birth. A 33-year-old Marin County woman was...

For more than a decade, the U.S. has faced a shortage of nurses to staff hospitals and nursing homes. While the current recession has encouraged some who had left the profession to return, about 100,000 positions remain unfilled. Experts say that if more is not done to entice people to enter the field—and to expand the U.S.'s nurse-training capacity—that number could triple or quadruple by 2025. President Barack Obama's goal of expanding health coverage to millions of the uninsured could also face additional hurdles if the supply of nurses can't meet the demand. Some lawmakers are looking to the immigration...

If Plastic Surgery Won’t Convince You, What Will? By DAN BILEFSKY PRAGUE — When Petra Kalivodova, a 31-year-old nurse, was considering whether to renew her contract at a private health clinic here, special perks helped clinch the deal: free German lessons, five weeks of vacation, and a range of plastic-surgery options, including complimentary silicone-enhanced breasts. “I would rather have plastic surgery than a free car,” said Ms. Kalivodova, who opted for cosmetic breast surgery that would normally cost €2,600, or about $3,500, as well as liposuction on her thighs and stomach. These were physical enhancements, she said, that she could...

Friday May 22, 2009 Request by Louisiana Hospital for Summary Judgment against Pro-Life Nurse "Denied": State Supreme Court By Hilary WhiteCOVINGTON, Louisiana, (LifeSiteNews.com) - The case of a pro-life nurse in Louisiana will go to trial after four years of legal dispute. Nurse Toni Lemly contests being demoted in 2005 from her job at a Covington hospital for refusing to dispense the abortifacient 'morning after' abortion pill, Plan B. With a single-word refusal, "Denied," the Louisiana State Supreme Court refused to grant a request by the hospital to give a summary judgment against Lemly. In 2005, attorneys with the...

The Louisiana Supreme Court Friday declined to hear an appeal by St. Tammany Parish Hospital in a nurse’s lawsuit filed by ADF attorneys and an ADF-allied attorney. A trial judge had ruled against issuing summary judgment in favor of the hospital, so that decision will stand. The nurse, Toni Lemly, sued the hospital in 2005 after it refused to grant a reasonable accommodation for her religious beliefs. “Pro-life medical personnel shouldn’t be penalized for their beliefs,” said ADF-allied attorney Brian Arabie of Lake Charles. “The hospital acted unlawfully when it refused to make a reasonable accommodation for Ms. Lemly and...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 20, 2009 – While troops on the ground risk their lives fighting terrorism, Air Force Capt. Susan McCormick provides emergency care to wounded troops so they can return to the fight or return to their families back home. Air Force Capt. Susan McCormick gives medicine to Air Force Airman 1st Class Brent Noah during an aeromedical evacuation flight to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 26, 2009. Noah dislocated his hip and was being flown to Bagram Airfield from Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, for treatment. McCormick is a flight nurse with the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight...

MADISON, Wis. — A Dean Health System nurse was called out of surgery so a manager could tell her she was being laid off. Dean Health says the surgery was minor and the patient wasn't affected, but the manager who summoned the nurse from surgery violated medical protocol.

  Dedicated: Nurse Debbie Noble, right, walked to treat kidney patient Steph Crawford  Nurse walked nine miles in the snow to save my lifeAnna Davis 13.02.09   A nurse walked nine miles through deep snow two days in a row to save the life of a patient who required kidney dialysis and was trapped at home.Renal nurse Debbie Noble, 49, made the four-hour round trip to help Steph Crawford fearing she could die without the treatment.Mrs Crawford, 45, from Ewell, suffers from kidney failure. She could not drive to her usual dialysis centre in Kingston, and ambulances could not...

Note: The following SNIPPET is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09020008.htm Monday, February 2, 2009 Christian Legal Center supports Baptist Christian nurse suspended for prayer offer By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM (ANS) -- A Christian nurse from western England has been suspended from her work for offering to pray for an elderly patient. Caroline Petrie, a community nurse and devout Christian, is facing dismissal for an alleged breach of her code of conduct on equality and diversity in her work in Weston-super-Mare, near Bristol, Somerset, in England's West Country, according to the Christian Legal Center. Mrs Petrie,...

NEW YORK - A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday — days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day parade. Edith Shain of Los Angeles, donning a white nurse's uniform like the one she wore back in 1945, went to see the musical revival of "South Pacific" and posed for pictures, being hoisted off her feet on stage by five of the actors in their Navy whites.

Her image of being bent backward and receiving a passionate kiss from a sailor in Times Square, New York on Aug. 15, 1945 after the surrender of Japan, formally ending World War II, has become one of the most iconic pictures of the 20th Century. Now, 90-years-old Edith Shain of Los Angeles, who claims to be the young woman kissed by the sailor and captured in photo by Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, will be honored by the Navy on Veterans Day on Tuesday.

Talk about outrageous! Could you even imagine if a conservative group were to run dead Obama ad? Could you even imagine? The liberal California Nurses Union is running an ad showing John McCain's heartbeat flatline. Dead McCain. Then they smear Governor Sarah Palin for the rest of the ad:

EXCLUSIVE Cleric bans homosexual nurse from washing and dressing him in jail HATE preacher Abu Hamza has refused any more treatment from his prison nurse after finding out the man is gay. The nurse, nickname Queenie, has been helping to wash and dress the convicted terrorist for more than two years. A prison source told the Mirror the full-time staffer is openly gay and has a camp voice. Officers at Belmarsh jail are said to be surprised Hamza, 48, has not noticed before. Now the cleric is claiming it is against his religion and human rights to be treated by...