NEWS

• Popsy Pill Pack Opener: A Game-Changer in Medication Safety and Efficiency
   In the world of healthcare, medication management plays a crucial role in ensuring patient safety and adherence to prescribed treatments....
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• Durdans Hospital Upgrades to Advanced Electrophysiology System with DIMO Healthcare
  Durdans Hospital, the first healthcare institution in Sri Lanka to implement an Electrophysiology (EP) system, has taken a significant step in...
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• President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Engages in Discussions with PSUNU at Presidential Secretariat
  Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake engaged in discussions with the Public Services United Nurses Union (PSUNU) today (19) at the...
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• Medical Milestone: Australian Man Achieves 100-Day Survival with Titanium Artificial Heart
  An Australian man, in his forties, achieved a medical first by surviving for over 100 days with a fully artificial titanium heart, the BiVACOR Total...
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• Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV): Assessing the Current Global Impact and Preparedness Introduction
   Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a respiratory virus known to cause infections ranging from mild cold-like symptoms to severe respiratory...
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• Shop and Celebrate Creativity: Craft Exhibition in Kandy Today
  Today, the Kandy National Hospital Art Association is hosting a remarkable craft and design exhibition at the hospital terminal. This unique event...
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• Kandy National Hospital Nurse Wins First Place in poetry competition at the Inter Public Employees’ Creative Skills Competition
  In a remarkable display of creative talent, Nurse W.M.C. Ruwan Mala Wijewardena, employed in the Pediatric Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the Kandy...
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• Podu Heda Ekamuthuwa
  For the future development of the nursing profession, the inauguration ceremony of the "Podu Heda Ekamuthuwa" was successfully held today at the...
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• Special Notice Regarding Disclosure of Information
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• New malaria vaccine is world-changing, say scientists
   A malaria vaccine with "world-changing" potential has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.The team expect it to be rolled...
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• Free uni degrees for Victorian nurses, midwives
  Thousands of nurses and midwives will have their university fees paid off by the Victorian government as part of a $270 million five-year...
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• UHC nurse named to West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses
  Leslie D. Perine, MSN, RN, is a nursing educator and graduate nurse specialist at WVU Medicine United Hospital Center, having served as a nurse for...
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• Nurse Receives US Presidential Medal of Freedom
  President Joe Biden awards the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, honor on a Jamaican-born nurse Sandra Lindsay...
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• Filipina nurse May Parsons receives UK George Cross award for NHS
  Filipina nurse May Parsons received a George Cross Award in Windsor Castle. She was the first nurse who administered the world's first COVID-19...
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• Colorado Law Would Lift Veil of Secrecy on Sperm Donations
  New rules in Colorado that would lift a veil of secrecy around sperm donation and grant other protections to people conceived with donated cells are...
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• Call for urgent review of mileage rates for nurses hit by fuel price hike
  The Royal College of Nursing is calling for an ‘urgent and early review’ of the NHS mileage rates as rising fuel costs hit the pockets of nurses who...
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• 'World-first' heart-thymus transplant success
  A pediatric surgery team at Duke University successfully performed a heart transplant and a thymus tissue transplant from the same donor. By...
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• Thousands of NSW nurses strike over pay and staffing ratios
  Thousands of NSW public hospital nurses have walked off the job in protest at inadequate staff-to-patient ratios, saying they are at breaking point...
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• RCN Scotland survey suggests 60% of nurses considering quitting job
  Six out of 10 nurses are considering leaving or actively planning to leave their current role, according to a survey by the Royal College of Nursing...
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• Nurse selected in Team GB’s five-strong women’s team for Beijing 2022
  Vicky Wright, general surgical nurse, who works on a part-time basis to aid her sporting career is looking forward to her first trip of the new year,...
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• 1st vaccinated nurse in the U.S. reflects 1 year later
  One year ago, a critical care nurse from Port Washington, who had emigrated from Jamaica more than 30 years earlier, rolled up the sleeve of her Long...
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• Melbourne emergency nurse, mother of three dies of COVID-19
  A frontline Victorian nurse has died with Covid and been described as an “unsung hero”.Mother-of-three Gillian “Jill” Dempsey had been an emergency...
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• Lanarkshire learning disability nurse honoured with Queen's Nurse Award
  A learning disability nurse from NHS Lanarkshire was awarded her Queen’s Nurse award at a special ceremony in Edinburgh this week.nhs.ukCarole...
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• Nurse Baby helps deliver baby on plane during ‘eventful flight’
  Ms Baby, a senior oncology specialist nurse at the University Hospitals Sussex Foundation Trust who was travelling on a long-haul flight from the UK...
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• Health trade unions on token strike today
  A total of 16 trade unions in the health sector launched a token strike at 7.00 a.m. today (November 24) over irregularities in promotions, salary...
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