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...more than 620,000 registered nurses, more than any other occupation, according to the BLS. Why? With 77 million baby boomers approaching retirement age and preventive health care growing, nurses are in demand. Technology has shortened hospital stays for many patients, but the ones left behind are the sickest and require even more attention. Median annual earnings for nurses are $48,090, and 10% of registered nurses make more than $69,670. The hours are odd, though, with lots of tempting overtime opportunities. "I've wanted to smack--figuratively smack--some other nurses," says Kay Ball, 56, a longtime surgical...
...city to leave immediately and shut down the school system citywide. The city's hospital complex, which flooded during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, is now protected by huge floodgates, which are being lowered Friday, according to Ann Brimberry at Texas Children's Hospital, which moved its 400 sickest children to lower floors where administrators believed they would be safe. "Anyone we could send home we did, but we have preemies recovering from heart surgery," she said...
...door on a man who ran out of medicine for his kidney transplant. Very soon his body is going to go into rejection." Henderson went in with New Orleans police, and when people saw him in scrubs, they surged at him from every side. He tried to tend the sickest and the babies first. "The crowds here have gotten a bad rap. There are not many human beings you could cram into a building with 10,000 others, in 105 heat, that wouldn't get just a little pissed off." He tried to get them settled and asked them...
...Murphy said yesterday that although the patients on the waiting list were “the sickest patients,” many could have lived longer had they received treatment in March...
...Tara probably has the sickest shot I’ve ever seen,” said Curtis. “She is so strong that she can shoot from as far back as the guys. She has a knack for finding the goal like no one I’ve ever seen...