Nursing - News April 16, 2011

Sleep strategy used by night nurses throws off their circadian clocks (Science, Industry and Business)
As many as 25 percent of hospital nurses go without sleep for up to 24 hours in order to adjust to working on the night shift, which is the least effective strategy for adapting their internal, circadian clocks to a night-time schedule.

First ever breast cancer symposium in N.B. (CBC)
Doctors, radiation therapists, nurses and other health care professionals gathered in Moncton Friday to talk about breast cancer.

Hibbing nurses authorize strike (WKBT)
Nurses at Range Regional Health Services in Hibbing have voted to authorize their union to strike.

Spectrum Nursing Home Strikers To Rally Saturday (The Hartford Courant)
One year after close to 400 union nurse's aides, cafeteria workers, janitors, drivers and nurses went on strike at four Spectrum nursing homes, most are still out on the picket lines.

Pawnee Valley Co-op boosts tax credits (Great Bend Tribune - Great Bend, Kansas)
Jim Misunas Great Bend Tribune Members of the Pawnee County Community Health Organization join to recognize the $75,000 contribution by the Pawnee County Cooperative Association are Pawnee County Commissioners John Haas, Kathy Bowman and Donna Pelton; Marilyn Winters, PVCH nursing di... By Jim Misunas jmisunas@gbtribune.com LARNED - Kim Barnes, ...

Netcare faces strike over pay (The Star)
Thousands of nurses at South Africa's biggest private hospital group Netcare are mulling a strike over better pay, union officials said on Friday.

U of C nurses vote to authorize strike (Chicago Business)
Union nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center have voted to authorize a strike if their bargaining demands aren't met.

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