|  Health alerts regarding people who may have traveled to particular West African countries are posted in the lobby of Bellevue Hospital, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, in New York. Should Canada's first Ebola case ever present itself, public health officials will be faced with a daunting challenge: tracking down everyone the patient had contact with in order to contain the spread of the virus. - Read More Talk to a few students or professors in the family nurse practitioner program at Illinois State University and it's easy to see the passion they have for health care. All students in the program already are registered nurses. - Read More First, health care workers at the facility sent a feverish Thomas Eric Duncan home the first time he came to the emergency room, even though he'd informed the nurse he'd recently been in Africa. Then, after Duncan was admitted and diagnosed with Ebola, two of the nurses who were closely involved in his care contracted the deadly virus. - Read More A nurse who worked in West Africa with Ebola patients and was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital over the weekend was returning home to Maine on Monday as her lawyer criticized the state's policies that had her fighting to be released from an isolation tent. Health officials said Saturday that nurse Kaci Hickox tested negative for Ebola. - Read More Ontario has no plans to make flu shots mandatory for health-care workers in hospitals provincewide, the health minister said Monday. It's a requirement at some hospitals in Ontario, which the nurses' union is fighting, that they either get the flu shot or wear a mask. - Read More But as he took his last breaths, a somewhat unfamiliar face was curled up right next to Gehlert on his hospital bed. That face belonged to Tom, the tabby cat. - Read More Beebe Healthcare's Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing invites those interested in entering the rewarding and challenging field of nursing to attend the School's semi-annual Open House on Thursday, November 13, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. For the month of November, College Application Month, the School of Nursing joins Delaware colleges and universities in waiving application fees. Governor Jack Markell announced the waiving of college application fees in November for Delaware high school seniors who apply to University of Delaware, Delaware State University, Del Tech, Wilmington University, Wesley College and Goldy-Beacom College. - Read More Ten people who had contact with a Spanish nursing assistant who survived Ebola have been released from a Madrid hospital, among them the woman's husband. A spokeswoman for Carlos III hospital says they left Monday after 21 days under observation with no symptoms. - Read More A 5-year-old boy with a fever who recently returned from Ebola-stricken West Africa is being tested for the deadly virus at New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center, Dr. Ram Raju told CNN on Monday. Also on Monday, a nurse who was quarantined after returning to New Jersey from Sierra Leone on Friday was ordered released. - Read More The Power of Life Project has donated an automatic blood pressure monitor to the chemotherapy toom at Carbonear General Hospital. Shown here, Newfoundland Power employees in Carbonear officially present the Automatic Blood Pressure monitor to the Chemotherapy Room at Carbonear General Hospital. - Read More More Nursing News Popular News from the Topix Network You won't believe it - some of these stars are unrecognizable. I don't understand. Neither do they. These are ROUGH. I was genuinely shocked by some of these. Kim Kardashian...Lindsay Lohan???! We have no words. | 
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