The Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act, which took full effect on April 28, ensures accommodations for breastfeeding mothers in the workplace. Under the PUMP Act (pdf), employers must provide a private space—not a bathroom—and allow adequate time for nursing mothers to pump breast milk during work hours. The bill was signed…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A Florida judge rejected a prosecutor’s impassioned plea Monday, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of a nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility’s air conditioning in 2017. Circuit Judge John J. Murphy III listened impassively as prosecutor Charles Morton made his…

Health Canada is conducting a safety review of domperidone, a drug often prescribed off-label to breastfeeding mothers as a way to boost milk supply, after reports have alleged withdrawal symptoms and psychiatric concerns after stopping the medication. A spokesperson for Health Canada told the Epoch Times in an emailed statement that it is “proactively” monitoring…

Around 25 people have been charged for their roles in a huge coordinated scheme to sell false and fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts to aspiring nurses, the Department of Health and Human Services’s Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) announced on Jan. 25. HHS-OIG and its law enforcement partners conducted a “multi-state coordinated law enforcement action”…

WASHINGTON—The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is launching investigations this month into select nursing homes, aimed at verifying whether patients have been properly diagnosed with the psychiatric disorder. Evidence has…

NEW ORLEANS—A nursing home owner who faces criminal and civil complaints over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021 is now being sued by federal authorities who say he misspent $4 million. The latest complaint against Bob Dean Jr. was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge…

More than 10,000 budding nurses and midwives will have their university degrees paid off in full to ease workforce pressures on the Australia’s state of Victoria’s stretched health system. The nurses and midwives will be recruited and trained for free from next year as part of a A$270 million (US$186 million) initiative announced by the…

What a lovely way to light up these elderly folks’ day! (Video courtesy of BlueWave Living) …

MADRID—Six residents of a nursing home in eastern Spain perished after a fire broke out in the night, authorities said Wednesday. Valencia’s regional head, Ximo Puig, said that 17 more residents were hospitalized, with three in serious condition. Firefighters said that they rescued 25 residents out of a total of 70 that were evacuated from…

As Massachusetts hospitals continue to hand out red slips to nurses for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, members of the state’s largest nursing association gave testimony to lawmakers about escalating job pressures that have prompted an alarming number of nurses to quit.  “Morale is low, burnout is high, and many nurses are walking away…