Nursing - News February 14, 2011

12:46: A&E bed queues 'crisis deepens' (Ei News)
The number of patients waiting on trolleys for a hospital bed was at its worst last year.

Fewer beds in Royal Bournemouth Hospital's A 2.2million stroke unit (Bournemouth Echo)
THE new A 2.2 million combined stroke unit at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital will initially have 20 fewer beds and 29 fewer staff than the current set-up, it has been revealed.

Paying for nursing home care (WTHR)
You can use your own money, get help from your state, or use long-term care insurance to pay for nursing home costs.

NHS row over royal wedding day work (Andover Advertiser)
A row over arrangements for paying staff who have to work on the day of the royal wedding is brewing after health workers across the country were told they will not receive any extra money.

Laughing gas returning as option for laboring moms (KVAL-TV Eugene)
Labor pain is nothing to laugh at. Yet. The use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, during childbirth fell out of favor in the United States decades ago, and just two hospitals - one in San Francisco and one in Seattle - still offer it.

Legislation could help nursing shortage (Messenger)
Legislation making its way through the General Assembly could help Danville and Virginia retain health-care workers as need for them increases.

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