The recent Government announcements on general practice nurses will assist GPs in providing care for patients. AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that this recognises that general practice nurses under the supervision of the doctor can enable patients to access services. The Government has promised to extend practice nurse grants to all GP practices - not just rural areas and workforce shortage areas. [click link for full article]
The scandal-ridden University of California Irvine Medical Center has fired 13 registered nurses and now put a key nurse leader on investigatory leave for standing up for her colleagues, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee said recently. [click link for full article]
Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) HIV patients in South Africa have left the nurses who provide this vital community service exposed to continual emotional strain - leading to career burnout - causing these caregivers to eventually leave the service. [click link for full article]
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants could be some of the answers to the global healthcare industry staff shortage. If mobilized in a thoughtful way, they could well be an essential resource in alleviating the severe shortage of medical staff in Australia and around the world. [click link for full article]
The Australian Nursing Federation, Federal Secretary, Jill Iliffe called on the Minister for Health, Tony Abbott to clarify the government's position on the industrial relations arrangements that will apply to nursing staff at the Mersey Hospital in Tasmania after the takeover by the federal government. [click link for full article]
The first American College of Nurse-Midwives Women's Health Expo will be held May 24, 2008, in Boston in conjunction with the ACNM 53rd Annual Meeting & Exposition. The consumer-focused Expo will include an interactive women's health experience promoted through the local and regional media and medical community partnerships.More than 2,000 nurse-midwives, physicians, nurses, and other women's health care professionals from the U. [click link for full article]
Student nurses are an important part of the patient care team and can enrich patients' experiences during hospitalization-however, some circumstances may increase the chance of their involvement in medication errors. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has analyzed medication errors by student nurses, and discovered that a distinct set of error-prone conditions or medications can make mistakes involving students more likely. [click link for full article]
A robot controlled by Soldiers from the 789th Ordnance Company, from Fort Benning, Ga., currently attached to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, investigates an Iranian 107mm rocket at a launch site Oct. 23. Five rockets were fired at Combat Outpost Cache from the site, but no soldiers were injured. Only one rocket managed to land inside the outpost perimeter.#1: Insurgents fired five rockets at Combat Outpost Cache, with one detonating inside the outpost perimeter, Oct. 23. No Soldiers were injured in the attack, but one truck was damaged.
#2: A U.S. soldier was killed and four were wounded in a roadside bombing in southern Baghdad, the military reported Friday. The unit was hit Thursday with an explosively formed penetrator, known as an EFP
#3: Three bodies were found in Baghdad today in the following neighborhoods(1 body in Ur, 1 body in Bayaa and 1 body in Amil).
also today in Al Anbar Province: Khalidiya:
#1: Three U.S. servicemen were injured when a roadside bomb exploded targeting their vehicle patrol in northern Khalidiya city. An explosive device was detonated this afternoon near a U.S. vehicle patrol in al-Jazeera region, north of Khalidiya, injuring three U.S. soldiers and damaging their Hummer," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of
Iraq
Hawija:
#1: Gunmen killed a nurse in a drive-by shooting outside the major hospital in central Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.
Hilla:
#1: The US Consulate and an Iraqi police barrack in central Hillah city had been concurrently bombarded by 17 mortar shells, a senior Iraqi officer said Friday. Three Iraqi civilians were wounded in the attack Thursday while five houses nearby were damaged, colonel Ali Hassan said. Shortly afterwards, police forces conducted an inspection campaign, arresting a suspect and discovering 21 mortar launchers, Hassan added.
A lot of updates today, beginning with our biggest upload of Strictly Come Dancing pictures so far. Over 200 high quality promotional and performance shots from series five have been spread over thirteen pages:
Due to the large amount of pictures, dedicated Strictly pages have now been created for , and . All Strictly pictures that were previously on the girls' main pages have now been moved to their respective special galleries. Also included on each page are pictures of the girls' respective professional partners: Matthew Cutler, Brendan Cole and Ian Waite.
Added a new gallery for plus a dedicated . Letitia's main gallery features a variety of promotional shots from award shows, pantomimes (she looks great as Snow White) and, of course, Eastenders. Most are from her recent stint on the show, but there are also a couple from the "one minute we were talking, the next we were ripping each other's clothes off" era. Unfortunately, there aren't any from the "whatcha reckon Lofty? Do you prefer tights or stockings?" era as yet, but we're working on it...
Letitia's Strictly page also features pictures of her professional partner Darren Bennett.
Added a new gallery for plus a dedicated . The same pictures have been uploaded to the gallery.
Updated the , , , , and galleries with high quality performance shots. Each gallery also features pictures of the professional dancers' respective partners: Gethin Jones, Willie Thorne, Brian Capron, Dominic Littlewood, John Barnes and Kenny Logan.
Finally for the Strictly Come Dancing section, we've added a new gallery for It Takes Two presenter and updated page.
Eastenders next...
In addition to the and pages mentioned above, we've also added a new gallery for and updated the , and pages.
That's still not all...
Added a for screen captures from What Planet You On by Bodyrox to the gallery.
Added screen captures from and to the gallery.
Added more screen captures from Nickelback's Rockstar video to the , and galleries.
Added a new gallery for plus a dedicated page for screen captures from her new video, .
Finally, to celebrate the release of new album Blackout next week, we've added a collection of promotional photoshoots to the gallery. Every era of Britney is included, so there should be something for everyone.
Tuesday, 23rd October 2007
Added a new gallery for plus a dedicated page for screen captures from by Freemasons.
Added a new gallery for plus dedicated pages for screen captures from (Bodyrox), (Super Mal) and (Martijn Ten Velden).
Added a new gallery for plus dedicated pages for and .
Added a new gallery for featuring some fantastic high quality photoshoots and performance shots from the current series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Added performance shots from last weekend's Strictly Come Dancing to the , , , and galleries.
Updated the page with a candid shot from the premiere of Ratatouille.
Added new Heroes Season Two wallpapers to the , and galleries.
Monday, 22nd October 2007
Added over 700 screen captures to the page on the gallery. If you're a uniform fetishist (and I think it's probably quite clear by now that we fall into that camp), there should be something there to please you. Elizabeth wears a variety of costumes including traffic cop, nurse, cheerleader, schoolgirl and (in the section) French maid. There's also a lot of PVC and leather flying around, all of which add up to form our best set of vidcaps yet!
Added a new gallery for who arrives in Heroes tonight (in the USA) as a mysterious character called Elle.
Updated the and galleries with new high quality photoshoots.
Nurses are threatening to escalate their campaign for better pay and conditions if the State Government fails to improve its offer.
Nurses began closing beds across the state on Friday.
Neroli Ellis from the Nursing Federation says members are angry the government has failed to offer a compromise deal.
"Nurses are very determined to protect our profession and safe patient care. Nurses will take this further if they have to."
Negotiators from the Health Department will meet the Health and Community Services Union today and the Nursing Federation tomorrow to try to break the deadlock.
The Health Minister, Lara Giddings says the campaign has forced some surgery to be postponed.
"I do think there is an element of unreasonableness in taking this industrial action as far as they have."
Ms Giddings insists the government's offer is fair.
