Because the police investigation into catheter disruptions at Sunrise Children's Hospital -- where one infant died as the result of a severed umbilical catheter -- has gone on for so long, the state ...

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A nurse investigated in the death of an infant at Sunrise Hospital filed suit Friday claiming she was defamed, wrongfully fired and made a scapegoat for hospital administrators — whom she claims ...

Indwelling devices like catheters cause roughly 25% of hospital infections, but ongoing efforts to reduce catheter use and misuse haven't succeeded as much as health care workers would like. But most ...

A doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is working with a team of nurse and physician leaders to examine the use of urinary catheters, and related urinary tract infections, in ...

Toronto-based Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre recently published a medical directive and infographic for nurses on the early removal of urinary catheters from medical ward patients in JAMA Internal ...

A nurses’ union sued Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas on Tuesday after the hospital refused to rehire a nurse who had been investigated in the death of an infant there. A lawsuit filed in federal court ...

A hospital-based medical directive allowing nurses to assess patients and remove their urinary catheter (UC) without separate medical orders each time has led to decreased numbers of ...

Background. Insertion of central venous catheters (CVCs) has historically been a task limited to physicians. However, as the use of CVCs and peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) has become ...

Distraction methods, such as use of a stress ball, are simple and effective strategies for reducing perceived stress and pain in patients during port catheter needle insertion.