A special handmade gift now graces the Intensive Care Unit consult room at the St. Cloud Hospital to bring smiles in troubled times. Shelia Campbell has worked as a nurse in the ICU for almost 30 years and thanks to her hobby of quilting hangs a special gift for all to see.
State investigators say a nurse in northwestern Minnesota routinely took pain patches off the backs of mentally deficient residents in a nursing home and stuck them to own his tongue to feed his drug addiction.
A former Minnesota nurse plans to appeal his conviction of assisting the suicide of an English man and attempting to assist in the suicide of a Canadian woman.
Minnesota prosecutors are arguing that an ex-nurse should be convicted of assisting suicide for online communications in which he urged two people to kill themselves.
An investigation at St. Cloud Hospital is underway following the development of an unusual blood infection in 23 patients, all in the same hospital ward. Linda Chmielewski, the Vice President of Hospital Operations for St. Cloud Hospital, says the infection is believed to have been caused by a nurse piping narcotic pain killers from patients' IV bags.
An attorney for a former nurse accused of going online and encouraging two people to kill themselves wants the Minnesota Court of Appeals to address a free speech issue.