Nursing - News January 22, 2011

Obscene image nurse 'can practise' (Eastbourne Today)
A West Midlands-based male nurse who accessed an obscene image so shocking it made a female colleague "sick to her stomach" has been told that he can carry on practising.

Nurses' federation OKs new collective agreement (Montreal Gazette)
The FA©dA©ration interprofessionelle de la santA© approved a new collective agreement by an 86-per-cent margin.

IHL calls foundationa s nursing report a landmarka (Mississippi Business Journal)
The Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine recently released The Institute of Medicine report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," a thorough examination of the nursing workforce, according to the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning .

Patient left with two dead bodies (BBC)
A Kent hospital has apologised after a 71-year-old man was left on a ward all day alongside two dead bodies.

Union attacks NHS jobs cut plan (Sunderland Today)
Union leaders have attacked plans to cut 1,600 jobs at a West Midlands NHS Trust, warning of a possible repeat of a hospital scandal that led to hundreds of avoidable deaths.

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