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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Hospital ban on flowers

Nursing News - January 6, 2011

Hospital ban on flowers (Dudleynews.co.uk)

VISITORS to Russells Hall Hospital have been banned from taking in bouquets of flowers to cheer up their loved ones.

Contraceptive Alert After Women Fall Pregnant (The Post Chronicle)

Hundreds of women have become pregnant after a long-term contraceptive implant failed to be properly inserted, the government's drugs and medical devices watchdog said on Wednesday.

NSW nurses ready for long fight on ratios (The West Australian)

Nurses in NSW say they are prepared for a long campaign in their fight to persuade the state government to increase nurse-to-patient ratios.

Overcrowded ER may have played role in death (Montreal Gazette)

When Mieczyslaw Figiel died last February in the corridor of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital's emergency room, right next to the triage nursing station where an ambulance had left him earlier, his family was distraught that no one had bothered to check on a dying man.

Placentas on Facebook: Nursing School Says No Way (Time)

Tweet The placenta is not a showy organ. It does yeoman's work sustaining baby throughout pregnancy, then, shortly after the moment that should be its, ahem, crowning glory, it's unceremoniously tossed into the medical waste bin.A But now that oxygen-giving, nutrient-transporting tissue blob has made headlines after four nursing students in ...

Hospital overcrowding action call (Kildare Nationalist)

Nursing chiefs demanded hospital overcrowding be given the same priority as the economic crisis as a record number of patients waited on trolleys for a second day.

Retired Archbishop Hannan returns to hospital after fall (WWL-TV New Orleans)

COVINGTON, LA Retired Archbishop Philip Hannan returned to the hospital following a fall at the nursing facility where he was staying, according to a statement from the Archdiocese.