Sam Adams begins each morning the same way. He rolls out of bed and walks over to the west-facing window in his Rainbow Motel ...

The video sees Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden and presenter Adele Roberts – all of whom have opened up about their experiences with cancer – send messages of ...

Here are more doctors and nurses who are willing to share their shocking experiences, sourced from the BuzzFeed Community, and questions like "What's the craziest thing you have seen at a hospital?" ...

Aims: To assess emergency department (ED) nurses' ability to communicate with angry patients and to explore the factors that influence nurses' communication skills. Design: A cross-sectional survey ...

We used multilevel/hierarchical mixed-effects regression models to explore the association between patient outcomes and daily variation in RN and nursing assistant staffing, measured as hours per ...

Confounding bias means that a patient's difficult personality may be entwined with the likelihood of diseases that inform a differential diagnosis (eg, a patient with an unexplained tremor, may be ...

PROVIDENCE — Katelyn Holt has been a nurse for over a decade. Throughout her career, she has noticed that the catheters her patients receive fall short. A few years ago, Holt was driving home ...

Because of the shortage, nurses who remain in hospital work must care for more patients under increasingly difficult working conditions. Because of these strained working conditions, more nurses ...

Let's be blunt. It's hard to care for difficult patients. It's sometimes impossible to actually like them. This species of sick individuals tends to strain time, patience, and resources.

On Jan. 9, Hannah Jarand gave birth to a baby boy at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, her fourth child born at the Portland hospital. Jarand’s previous pregnancies had complications, so ...

A NURSE from Greenock has been struck off following an affair with a patient at a secure mental health unit in Glasgow. Jill McLaren, 37, pleaded guilty at the city's sheriff court last year to ...

Providing testimonials as part of a campaign to tackle such violence, one member of staff said they had a TV thrown at them by an angry ... patient said they didn’t want to be treated by a nurse ...