Nursing - News April 4, 2011

PFI hospitals 'asset stripping' (Petersfield Today)
Hospitals built under the private finance initiative are closing beds and cutting jobs in a "desperate bid" to balance their books, a campaign group has claimed.

Rescued Libyans describe attacks in besieged city (Salon)
From makeshift beds inside a cruise-ship-turned-hospital, wounded residents of a besieged Libyan city told Sunday of daily shelling, looting and sniping by Moammar Gadhafi's forces and called for the end of the Libyan ruler's 42-year reign.

Showtime's "Nurse Jackie" is addictive (San Antonio Express-News)
Hospitals used to freak me out. In fact, for years, the mere scent of rubbing alcohol made my stomach queasy; it would take me back to my childhood, when my mom used to bring us kids to Fort Sam Houston to get our shots.

Steady stream of patients flows into new Viera Hospital (Floridatoday)
Within minutes of the new Viera Hospital's opening, paramedics brought in a woman injured by a golf ball while taking her morning walk.

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