 | |  Nursing - News August 4, 2014 Demand for general practice appointments is rising rapidly, and in an attempt to deal with this, many practices have introduced systems of telephone triage. YAY FOR ROBOTS: Robots for nursing care and other medical purposes are being developed around Japan; here elderly people exercise with a Palro 'healing robot'. A pair of wildfires burning without restraint about 8 miles apart in northeast California became the focus of state and federal firefighters Sunday as authorities reported that one of the blazes had destroyed eight homes and prompted the precautionary evacuation of a small long-term care hospital. They're too often the forgotten people - or the ones many of us turn a blind eye to as we pass a street corner where they might implore us for extra change: the homeless living rough outside through all kinds of weather or those precariously housed in a cot-for-the-night shelter or a decaying rooming house. In June it was revealed Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - which runs the Royal as Redditch's Alexandra Hospital as well as Kidderminster Hospital - was considering moving all high-risk births to Worcester in the face of a staffing crisis. Hospitals are freeing up nurses to do the one thing they often don't have enough time for: taking care of patients. Commissioners said the unit, for patients with minor injuries and ailments, will ease pressure on staff in the accident and emergency department. More Nursing News... |  | |
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