|  The Government faced fresh anger over its refusal to accept a recommended 1% pay rise for NHS staff as radiographers went on strike - many for the first time in their career. Members of the Society of Radiographers across the UK walked out for four hours at 9am and will work to rule for the rest of the week. - Read More As more seniors choose to be cared for at home rather than in a hospital, a growing number of nurses are working out of homes instead of institutions. The number of those employed in home-based services in Singapore has increased slowly over the years to about 110, said the Health Ministry. - Read More A union that represents hundreds of nurses and medical technicians at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe has overwhelmingly ratified a new, three-year labor contract. "Our folks seem to feel very good about it," Fonda Osborn, a negotiator for the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, told The Santa Fe New Mexican . - Read More The British nurse who survived Ebola will begin his second spell treating people infected by the deadly virus after returning to the country where he caught the infection. William Pooley said he was "delighted" to go back to Sierra Leone in West Africa as he attempts to prevent "as many unnecessary deaths as possible". - Read More Revised guidance for health care workers treating Ebola patients will include using protective gear "with no skin showing," a top federal health official said Sunday, and the Pentagon announced it was forming a team to assist medical staff in the U.S., if needed. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said those caring for an Ebola patient in Dallas were left vulnerable because some of their skin was exposed. - Read More An initial test shows that a nursing assistant who became infected with Ebola in Spain is now clear of all traces of the virus nearly two weeks after she was hospitalized, authorities said Sunday. Teresa Romero, 44, is the first person known to have contracted the disease outside West Africa in the current outbreak when she tested positive for the virus Oct. 6. She has been in quarantine at Carlos III hospital in Madrid since then. - Read More Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital hasn't exactly had a lot of good publicity lately: After the hospital first turned away Thomas Eric Duncan, he later died of Ebola; two of his nurses came down with the virus - one of whom took two flights just before she was diagnosed - as nurses decried hospital practices; and another worker who may have handled his samples hopped on a cruise ship. Today, the hospital took out a full-page ad in two Texas newspapers with an open letter from Texas Health Resources CEO Barclay Berdan. - Read More The nursing home portion of the Life Care Center in Post Falls received the most serious citation a skilled nursing facility can get-an "immediate jeopardy" citation. The state issued the citation after a compliance survey that did not favor the institution. - Read More More Nursing News Popular News from the Topix Network Science, GET ON THIS. Warning: you may never sleep again after some of these. Hey kids! THESE AREN'T TOYS. When these happen, you feel like the luckiest person in the world. I don't understand. Neither do they. | 
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