FORT KENT (AP) — An Ebola nurse who fought quarantines in New Jersey and Maine says she’s going to stay in southern Maine while she decides what to do next with her life. Monday marked the 21st day since Kaci Hickox’s last exposure to an Ebola patient. On Tuesday, she’ll be freed from daily monitoring. […]
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Ebola nurse says she would go back to Africa to help fight disease again
PORTLAND — The Maine nurse who defied quarantine attempts after treating Ebola patients in West Africa is looking forward to stepping out her front door — “like normal people.” Kaci Hickox’s plans for the end of the deadly disease’s 21-day incubation period include a dinner out with her boyfriend, but she told The Associated Press […]
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Maine’s Ebola protocols mean quarantine for nurse
Nurse Kaci Hickox left a New Jersey hospital on Monday and headed toward home in northern Maine, where her partner is a University of Maine at Fort Kent nursing student who lives off campus. State health officials announced that she’d be quarantined at home for 21 days after the last possible exposure to the disease […]
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Ex-York Hospital nurse charged with stealing drugs
YORK (AP) — A former nurse at York Hospital has been charged with stealing narcotic drugs from the hospital for her personal use. Police say 45-year-old Nicolle Dauphinee of Kennebunkport was summoned to court next month to face a charge of stealing drugs. Authorities say Dauphinee stole hydromorphone, a narcotic painkiller, intended for patients, and […]
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Nurse who failed to report abuse loses license
PORTLAND — A Maine nurse who failed to report signs of abuse of an infant who later died has lost her license. Former home health nurse Virginia McNamara signed a voluntary agreement with the state Board of Nursing, and the agreement was made final this week. The document references the case of 10-week-old Ethan Henderson, […]
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Incorrect degree
A graphic accompanying the story on Page A1 Sunday about the highest-paying jobs in Maine should have said at least a master’s degree is required to be a nurse anesthetist. The information was incorrectly submitted to the Sun Journal.
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Westbrook deaths ruled murder, suicide
WESTBROOK — A new guard at the Maine Correctional Facility shot and killed an emergency room nurse at his Westbrook residence and then turned the gun on himself, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety. According to a news release from the Maine Department of Public Safety, Patrick Milliner, 30, of South Portland appears […]
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Maine nurses say Obamacare doesn’t go far enough, argue for universal coverage
PORTLAND — A Maine nurses group on Monday said President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, which is criticized by conservatives as overreaching, doesn’t go far enough toward universal health coverage. The Maine State Nurses Association held Monday afternoon health screenings and an evening “town hall” event at the First Parish Church on Congress Street in […]
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Scarborough nonprofit collects millions of dollars in usable medical supplies thrown out by hospitals
SCARBOROUGH — Not far from a bin filled with $25 adhesive bandages, nurse Elizabeth McLellan checked the expiration dates on a number of bags of IV solutions, each one worth about $100 in the American medical supplies market — and as it turns out, each one with a usable lifespan that reaches deep into 2014 […]