Nursing

Nursing department bids farewell to mock convention

9 Feb 2012

The idea began on a porch at sunset. It was the fall of 1973 and several nursing faculty members were attending a state nursing convention. Merv Helmuth, an associate professor of nursing, remembers he sat in a rocking chair when ideas started spinning for a mock convention.

Nursing home a byword for innovation

8 Feb 2012

It comes with the kind of mod-cons most would associate more with a family home than a community nursing unit, but then innovation is the byword for Cork’s newest residential care facility.

180 nursing home beds may close in south

8 Feb 2012

ABOUT 180 beds in publicly-run nursing homes in the south of the Republic are expected to be closed this year as part of new health service cuts to be announced today.