Nursing News - August 31, 2010
A unit of medics from Scotland who volunteered for service in Afghanistan is to be presented with campaign medals by the Countess of Wessex.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Countess to honour Afghan medics
No mountain too high: Whidbey student from Kenya is a study in determination (South Whidbey Record)
He came to this country without English. He learned it. He had no degree. He earned two. Hospitals 'Let Elderly Patients Go Hungry' (Sky News)
Elderly people are still being left to go hungry on NHS wards, a charity claims. Christ Hospital has been designated as a Primary Stroke Center by the state Department of Health and Senior Services last month, hospital officials announced.
Sutter Delta gets high grades for ER care (Contra Costa Times)
Jeff Houston could tell that something was wrong with his father. Darryl Houston was visiting last month from Colorado, and they were about to go watch Jeff's son play a youth baseball game. St. John Broken Arrow hospital to open in October (Tulsa World)
St. John Broken Arrow, with 68 beds, is about finished. It will open to patients in October. 
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Katrina remains an emotional memory for Jackson natives five years after it devastated the Gulf coast
Nursing News - August 30, 2010
The Hurricane Katrina Memorial for St. Bernard Parish is seen in Shell Beach, La.
NHS care of the elderly is so appalling that more than two thirds of nurses admit hospitals do not ensure frail patients receive the help they need to eat.
Elderly 'going hungry on NHS wards' (Andover Advertiser)
Elderly people are being left to go hungry on NHS wards, a report said. Those who enter hospital malnourished can get worse during their stay or become malnourished under the care of NHS staff. Aid for strike-hit hospitals (The Mercury)
The SA National Defence Force has increased its support to strike-hit hospitals, it said on Sunday. Last year, Evelyn went in for a routine outpatient procedure. When the bills came in, she saw she'd accidentally been charged for an unrelated treatment.
Dummies await nursing students at new MCC facility (The Kingman Daily Miner)
Nursing classes began this week at Mohave Community College's newest campus building located at 1801 Detroit Ave., and while students and instructors alike are no doubt impressed by the 10,000-square-foot Detroit Avenue Center's amenities, the most fascinating feature by far are its two newest occupants. This is the daily email. Change to weekly
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Raising Alzheimer's care to award-winning heights
Nursing News - August 29, 2010
Nursing students graduate from Medical Arts College at St. John's... (The Daily Democrat)
Penny Strong LVN, and instructor of the College of Medical Arts, back row, at left, with recent graduates, Mahzabina Munif; Ruth Zamora; Allee Alvarez; and front row, Rosalia Tirado; Yesica Corona-Duarte; Zunara Mussadiq. President blasts civil servants over strike deaths (Sunday Times)
As South Africa braces for a third week of the crippling public service strike, President Jacob Zuma has criticised civil servants for causing the loss of lives. Every morning, as I take my son Hector to kindergarten, I drive through a Lower 9th Ward landscape dotted with stoops left behind after a wall of floodwater swept houses off their foundations.
Huge verdict shakes up nursing home industry (Press-Enterprise)
During Cindy Cool's almost daily visits to the nursing home, she would routinely find her Alzheimer's-suffering father wearing urine-soaked clothes. SUNY nursing students get high-tech 'patients' (RecordOnline)
Misaki Matsushita felt the fingers of the "patient" and straightened the blankets around his body. This is the daily email. Change to weekly
