Nursing - News February 26, 2011

Homes of some Pa. elderly are nursing classrooms (Centre Daily Times)
Verna Newcomer, an 88-year-old widow, is a teacher. So is Henry Walsh, 72, a retired clerk with two grown children.

A&E Redesign To Curb Attacks On Hospital Staff (Ananova)
Hospital accident and emergency departments are to be redesigned in an attempt to end attacks on staff, which cost the health service an estimated 69m a year.

53,000 NHS jobs 'facing the axe' (Scarborough Evening News)
More than 50,000 NHS jobs face being axed, including 1,349 in Staffordshire, with doctors, nurses and dentists set to go because of Government spending cuts, according to a new report.

Employment expected to rise 1% this quarter in the region (Daytona Beach News-Journal Online)
Employment in Central Florida is expected to rise slightly for the first quarter of the year, according to the results of a quarterly outlook report released by Manpower Inc.

Virginia Senate approves tough abortion restrictions (Hampton Roads Daily Press)
A bitterly divided Virginia Senate approved a new law Thursday that would force abortion clinics to meet the same regulatory and architectural requirements as outpatient surgical centers - a long sought goal of abortion opponents that abortion rights advocates say could close 17 of the state's 21 outpatient clinics.

The John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Faility in Yaphank (Long Island Press)
Continued uncertainty is the prognosis for patients at the John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility in Yaphank, which Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy has wanted to shut down after his efforts to sell 264-bed complex failed last year.

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