Nurse

It's one of the most iconic images to emerge from World War II. Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph of an anonymous young sailor in a dark-blue uniform dipping a white-uniformed nurse backward while giving her a long kiss in the middle of Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, symbolized the euphoria surrounding the news that the Japanese had surrendered and the war was finally over. Edith Shain, a retired Los Angeles elementary school teacher who claimed to be the mystery nurse in the photo seen by millions around the world, died of cancer Sunday at her home in Los Angeles, said her son, Michael.

Chris Paul thought Caron Butler was "crazy" for playing in Game 3 of the first-round playoff series against Memphis with a fractured left hand. Paul also said he had to commend Butler for gutting out 22 minutes of pain Saturday afternoon at Staples Center. Butler was injured in the third quarter of Game 1 in Memphis last Sunday night. He didn't play in Game 2 and was supposed to be sidelined four to six weeks recovering from the injury. But Butler practiced Friday and decided to play Sunday.

Why is a licensed nurse who receives a promotion called an "ex-nurse?" Sheila Burke's appointment to chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R--Kan.) was headlined this way (Times, Feb. 9). Let's assume that a physician or an engineer had been appointed to the post. I suspect that no one would find it necessary to divorce them from their professional identity. Instead, there would be an easy assumption that a member of the profession was expanding his or her professional base by assuming a leadership position.

OAKLAND — The former nursing student charged with seven counts of murder after a shooting rampage at a vocational school in Oakland pleaded not guilty Monday afternoon. One L. Goh, a 43-year-old South Korean national, had also been charged with three counts of attempted murder in the rampage at Oikos University nearly a month ago. Shackled to a chair in the jury box of Department 11 and clad in a red jail uniform, Goh appeared thinner than the day he was arrested in the killings of six students and a school employee.

Nurses often go above and beyond the call of duty to help patients, but they usually don't go to the lengths Allison Batson did. She donated a kidney to one. The recipient is 23-year-old Clay Taber, who had been treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for kidney failure in 2010. The Auburn University graduate was diagnosed with Goodpasture's syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease that can result in severe damage to the kidneys and lungs. Taber eventually would up in the transplant unit at Emory, where Batson, a transplant nurse, was working.

It is outrageous to see in print ("Debate Over Nurse Staffing Grows," April 5) that the California Healthcare Assn. would propose "one nurse for every 10 patients" in a medical-surgical unit. Along with an ill patient come family and loved ones who also need the bedside nurse's time and reassurance. A bedside nurse is the most important person in an ill person's hospital stay. When spread too thin, everyone loses. The patient and his/her family feel unimportant and the nurse gets lost trying to balance everyone and everything around her/him.

HOUSTON -- Houston nurse Verna McClain appeared in court Thursday after her arrest in this week's shooting death of a new mother outside a suburban pediatrician's office. The woman's 3-day-old infant son was taken in the attack. McClain, 30, wearing a pink-and white-striped jumpsuit, was asked by the judge if she understood the capital murder charge against her. She replied: "Yes, sir. " She has not been charged with kidnapping because that's part of the capital murder charge under Texas law, Montgomery County Sheriff's Lt. Dan Norris told The Times.

When you have worked as a theater nurse for as long as Lucy Waldschmidt has--it's now 16 years that she's made matinee and evening rounds at the Music Center--you can guess the nature of the emergency calls by performance time and patron's location. If the call comes from the parking garage a half hour before curtain's up, it's likely that two patrons in cummerbunds have engaged in a fistfight over a parking spot: bruises and cuts.

HOUSTON -- A licensed vocational nurse shot a young mother and kidnapped her newborn son outside of a pediatrician's office near Houston after lying to her fiance about having delivered his child, authorities said. "She needed to justify that she had a child to her fiance,” said Montgomery County Sheriff's Capt. Bruce Zenor at a briefing Wednesday. Verna McClain, 30, of Houston is accused in Tuesday's fatal shooting of 28-year-old Kala Marie Golden. McClain was charged with capital murder Wednesday, and a judge ordered her held without bond in Montgomery County jail.

HOUSTON -- A licensed vocational nurse was charged Wednesday with capital murder after she confessed to shooting a young mother and kidnapping her newborn son outside a pediatrician's office near Houston, authorities said. Verna McClain, 30, of Houston is accused in Tuesday's fatal shooting of 28-year-old Kala Marie Golden. On Wednesday, a judge ordered McClain held without bond in Montgomery County jail, Assistant Dist. Atty. Phil Grant told The Times. Based on the arrest report's chronology of events, confirmed by Grant, witnesses say an argument broke out between Golden and another woman as Golden left Northwoods Pediatric Center on Tuesday afternoon with her 3-day-old son, Keegan.

HOUSTON -- Houston nurse Verna McClain appeared in court Thursday after her arrest in this week's shooting death of a new mother outside a suburban pediatrician's office. The woman's 3-day-old infant son was taken in the attack. McClain, 30, wearing a pink-and white-striped jumpsuit, was asked by the judge if she understood the capital murder charge against her. She replied: "Yes, sir. " She has not been charged with kidnapping because that's part of the capital murder charge under Texas law, Montgomery County Sheriff's Lt. Dan Norris told The Times.

HOUSTON -- A licensed vocational nurse shot a young mother and kidnapped her newborn son outside of a pediatrician's office near Houston after lying to her fiance about having delivered his child, authorities said. "She needed to justify that she had a child to her fiance,” said Montgomery County Sheriff's Capt. Bruce Zenor at a briefing Wednesday. Verna McClain, 30, of Houston is accused in Tuesday's fatal shooting of 28-year-old Kala Marie Golden. McClain was charged with capital murder Wednesday, and a judge ordered her held without bond in Montgomery County jail.

HOUSTON -- A licensed vocational nurse was charged Wednesday with capital murder after she confessed to shooting a young mother and kidnapping her newborn son outside a pediatrician's office near Houston, authorities said. Verna McClain, 30, of Houston is accused in Tuesday's fatal shooting of 28-year-old Kala Marie Golden. On Wednesday, a judge ordered McClain held without bond in Montgomery County jail, Assistant Dist. Atty. Phil Grant told The Times. Based on the arrest report's chronology of events, confirmed by Grant, witnesses say an argument broke out between Golden and another woman as Golden left Northwoods Pediatric Center on Tuesday afternoon with her 3-day-old son, Keegan.

For-profit private colleges promise to prepare students for employment in fields such as nursing, auto repair, computer technology or cosmetology. Although the programs work for some students, others have complained of paying high tuition to schools that provided inadequate training and gave them unrealistic expectations about future job prospects. Before you enroll, consider these tips from California's Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education: •To see whether the for-profit college you're considering meets California standards, visit the bureau's website at http://www.bppe.ca.gov and search the directory of "approved schools.

By all accounts, the 400-pound black bear, now synonymous with Glendale, is very, very smart. Smarter, authorities say, than the average bear. After he discovered Costco meatballs in a resident's refrigerator about a month ago, authorities say, the bear has returned to the same house in the 3800 block of Cedarbend Drive three times seeking the same dinner. He even monitored trash schedules in multiple neighborhoods, nailing down the days when he could nab free food. But on Tuesday, the meatball-lovingbear'sgood fortune ran out. He was felled by multiple tranquilizer darts in a drama that unfolded on morning television, then was carted deep into the Angeles National Forest with what California Department of Fish and Game officials described as a "heck of a hangover.

For eight months, they studied shoulder to shoulder in a stripped-down classroom with cream-colored walls while planes roared overhead, heading to and from the airport next door. There was a mother of three, and a young woman still living with her parents. A part-time waitress and a part-time mental health counselor, a former lawyer and a former grocery stock boy. One came after years of working for the Tibetan government in exile, another left behind war-torn Afghanistan. They were the latest class at Oikos University's 4-year-old nursing school, all drawn to the same promise: one year of hard work, and they could become vocational nurses, with solid paychecks and guaranteed positions in a field with constant demand.

The cost of long-term care is the big health insurance uncertainty for Americans 65 and older. How will they pay for long-term care? The biggest shock for people entering the Medicare system is learning that it won't pay for custodial care in a nursing home. Let's say you are 90 and you fall and break a hip. You go to the hospital and Medicare pays for your hip replacement. You go to a rehabilitation nursing facility and Medicare pays the full bill for the first 20 days and for all but a co-pay for the next 80 days.

The Motion Picture & Television Fund has launched a Hollywood fundraising campaign to generate $350 million in support for the charity and its nursing home that was once slated to close. On Thursday the fund announced that DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg had already helped secure more than $200 million in pledges and donations that include his own contribution and those of Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Steve Bing, Casey Wasserman and George Clooney. Katzenberg and Clooney are spearheading the campaign efforts.