Monthly Archive: September 2018

Filipino nurses are concerned they aren’t being given enough time to find work in New Zealand. Labour MPs met Filipino community leaders on Saturday to discuss their struggles with short visas and lengthy registrations....

Nursing, like other health care fields, has been predominately female for quite some time. To increase diversity, some schools are taking the initiative to find ways of attracting more men to attend nursing school...

More than 18,000 nurses and midwives in both public and private health facilities are either fake or illegal as some are practicing without valid licenses and others lack the necessary qualifications, authorities have revealed....

  The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is to roll out a comprehensive programme by March 2019 to encourage doctors and other health professionals to accept posting to the three regions of the north. Over...

Final proposals for the regulation of nursing associates, including the skills and knowledge students will need in order to qualify, have been outlined by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The nursing associate role has...

Drug giants Novartis, Bayer and Roche on Friday lost a bid to stop British doctors from recommending a cheaper drug option for people with an eye disease that causes blindness, the High Court in...

Answer by David Chan, MD from UCLA, Stanford oncology fellowship, on Quora: People have an unrealistic expectation that their doctors are blocking huge parts of their days to field questions and review test results...

Drama unfolded at Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital after a woman complained of an attempt to steal her sister’s baby who had delivered at the heath facility Tuesday. Beatrice Anyango alleged that...

Twelve nurses and clinical officers have each received over 70 hours of training on the use of GE (www.GE.com) Healthcare’s portable handheld ultrasound device designed to help primary healthcare workers estimate gestational age, better...