The draft National Education Policy 2019 recommends extensive changes in medical education. One of the radical suggestions is the proposal to allow lateral entry of nursing and dental graduates into the MBBS course with a common foundational one to the two-year course for doctors, dentists and nurses. The other changes also include curbing the role […]
There seems to be serious ambiguity regarding who should draw blood sample from patients in AIIMS: the doctors or the nursing staff? Resident doctors of AIIMS have declared that they would stop drawing blood samples from August 26. They consider it the duty of the nursing staff. At present, resident doctors have to generate barcode […]
Over 1,000 people, including 350 infants, may have been exposed to tuberculosis in the maternity wing of a hospital in California after an active case of the disease was diagnosed in a nurse, hospital officials said on Sunday. The hospital said it was notified only in mid-November that an employee who worked in the area […]