Nursing - News January 14, 2011

Nursing Home Left Without Heat After Gas Valve Hit ( KMBC-TV)
Portable heaters were brought in to St. Mary's Manor Thursday for a few hours after the nursing facility at 111 Northwest Mock Ave.

Renton Technical College a prescription for Washington's economy (Rentonreporter)
Michelle Powell wanted a better life. After about 19 years removed from her job as a nurse with surgical skills, the mother of five returned to school.

Aglukkaq commits $800K to fight Nunavut TB (CBC)
TB is a highly infectious respiratory disease that can be contracted simply by breathing in the bacterium that causes it.

Don't die waiting in the ER (CNN)
When 2-year-old Malyia Jeffers developed a fever one Sunday afternoon in November, her parents gave her a children's Motrin and kept a cautious eye on her throughout the night.

East Lancashire nurse 'punched patient', hearing told (Blackburn Citizen)
A NURSE punched a patient who used a zimmer frame and told the sobbing man his 'crocodile tears' would not help, a hearing was told.

Seniors may have to pay for Medicare home health (The Modesto Bee)
Medicare recipients could see a new out-of-pocket charge for home health visits if Congress follows through on a recommendation issued Thursday by its own advisory panel.

Care home manager loses register appeal (Iom Online)
A Bedfordshire care home manager accused of shutting elderly residents in a "very small, windowless, claustrophobic room" has lost her High Court appeal against being struck off the nursing register.

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Former PHEAA foundation chief wins $200,000 in settlement in lawsuit (PennLive)

Michael Hershock, former head of Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, 's foundation, received $200,000 from a settlement in a dispute over his firing last year.

Carolinas doctors plan to bring hope-on-wheels to Haiti (The Charlotte Observer)

Charlotte doctor Hadley Wilson examines a 22-year-old patient at a makeshift clinic Thursday in Camp Louise, near the northern coast of Haiti.

Pediatric emergency center nearly... (The Business Journal of the Greater T...)

Construction of the $19 million pediatric emergency department at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is in its final phases, putting the new department on target for an April 11 opening.

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