NORWAY — In honor of International Nurses Week, Stephens Memorial Hospital has used the last several days to shine a light of appreciation on its entire nursing staff. Given the strains put on frontline health workers over the last year as they uniformly fought against the pandemic, it is particularly important in 2021 to thank […]
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Maine hospitals get creative to find nurses
LEWISTON — For a while, they tried bringing nursing students pizza. It was a way for the St. Mary’s Health System’s talent acquisition team to connect, to introduce themselves, to say, hey, St. Mary’s has some jobs openings for you, future nurses. A lot of openings. They attended local college coffee-and-doughnut hours, too. And blanketed […]
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School nurses dealing with trauma, STDs, language barriers
LEWISTON — The seminars sounded like they belonged in a major city hospital: “Serving English Learners,” “You Are the Key to HPV Cancer Prevention,” and “Hemophilia and Von Willebrand Disease.” At Bates College in Lewiston this week, they weren’t meant for medical students or hospital specialists, but for school nurses. “I think the average person […]
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Maine EMS awards honor local nurses, paramedics and doctors
AUGUSTA — A former longtime director of Maine’s Emergency Management System and several local doctors, a nurse and paramedics, were among those honored during a ceremony at the State House on Tuesday. Recognized during the annual State EMS awards in the Hall of Flags were: • LifeFlight’s Lewiston base manager, Lori Metayer, a paramedic and […]
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Anne Graham: A rallying cry to Maine nurses
As of Jan. 1, 70,000 of our neighbors, friends, relatives, patients and colleagues will have absolutely no health insurance coverage. It could be the high school friend who was laid off during the recession. It could be the family member struggling to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. This is a reality for many […]
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Nurses at Maine Med discuss unionization
PORTLAND (AP) — Efforts have started to unionize nurses at Portland’s Maine Medical Center. Meetings have been held to discuss the issue, although it doesn’t appear that a vote on whether to form a union has been scheduled. Vanessa Sylvester, bargaining coordinator with the Maine State Nurses Association, said the union has a “long relationship […]