Nursing News Online: Coastal Bend Advanced Practice Nurses group forms

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Coastal Bend Advanced Practice Nurses group forms

Nursing News - November 21, 2010

Coastal Bend Advanced Practice Nurses group forms (The Bee-Picayune, Beeville, Texas)

Coastal Bend area nurse practitioners and nurse midwives met in October to form a new coalition named Coastal Bend Advanced Practice Nurses .

Nurses: They Have Substance Abuse Problems, Too (WTIC-TV Hartford)

In any hospital or health care clinic, it's the nurses who work most closely with patients - dispensing medication and providing routine information and comfort.

Horror of hospital with just one doctor (Sunday Times)

A psychiatric patient sits motionless, strapped to a wheelchair in a 400- bed hospital with just one full-time doctor and a handful of professional nurses.

Expanding nurses union steps up strikes (The Washington Post)

Picket signs lie outside Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis prior to the 7 am start of a strike Thursday, June 10, 2010 as more than 12,000 nurses were scheduled to hold a one-day strike at 14 hospitals in the Twin Cities metro area.

P.E.I. Nurses' Union upset over job cuts (CBC)

The Prince Edward Island Nurses' Union is questioning a government strategy that involves cutting nursing jobs.

Nurses' union approves contract (Montreal Gazette)

Quebec's largest nurses' union have approved a new contract for its 58,000 members.