MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'florence nightingale'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:23:23 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405519&cid=t_117498_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FUqjqKHyBQqc%2F I’ve written quite a bit on fibromyalgia and I had featured someone with it in a Company’s Calling piece (Company’s calling - a journey with fibromyalgia ) when I wrote Help My Hurt for this network. I never knew there was a National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day - and I bet many of you didn’t either. Fibromyalgia is one of those hidden diseases that is still very much a disease that’s fighting to be recognized (Fibromyalgia debate continues ), which adds to the difficulties faced by those who live with it. They know it’s real - they have to live with its effects on a daily basis. According to the National Fibromyalgia Association : In 1993, May 12 was designated as the International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND) by T... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405519 Tue, 12 May 2009 07:16:19 +0100 2405519 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1968734&cid=t_117498_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fwhat-is-nurse-worth.html Nurse on the moneyIt seems it is not just GPs who are on the gravy train.The head of the NHS in England received a huge pay rise of up to 32 per cent at the same time as presiding over a below-inflation pay deal for nurses. Ministers face accusations of allowing the budget for senior NHS managers to almost treble in the past three years, from £1.2m to over £3.4m.David Nicholson, who became NHS chief executive in 2006, earned the equivalent of between £195,000 and £200,000 in that financial year. His salary rose to £215,000 to £220,000 in 2007-08 – a rise of between 7.5 per cent and 12.8 per cent. In addition he received £37,600 in a second homes allowance, bringing his total pay package to a maximum of £257,600, an increase of between 26 and 32 per cent on the previous year.The I... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1968734 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:09:00 +0100 1968734 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=599345&cid=t_117498_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1645 Click on the image for the full ad. This coming Saturday marks the 187th birthday of Florence Nightingale. Known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” Nightingale was one of the founders of modern nursing. To celebrate her birthday, I dug out this comic book PSA about her from Ben Casey #3 (Dell, 1962). Tags: comics psa nurse florence nightingale ben casey (Source: Polite Dissent) Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=599345 Tue, 08 May 2007 19:51:55 +0100 599345