Nursing - News April 9, 2011

UCMC nurses prepare for strike authorization vote (WICS)
Union nurses at University of Chicago Medical Center will vote next week on whether to authorize their bargaining team to call a strike if necessary.

Blood pressure test coming to Arizona Capitol (Tucson Post)
Tucson Post Friday 8th April, 2011 agonzales@bizjournals.com Southwest Ambulance will be at the state capitol next week, checking the blood pressures of state lawmakers to see whether the House or the Senate is more stressed.

19 pioneer nursing program at Navajo Tech (Thenavajotimes - The newspaper of the...)
Nursing student Rayes Armstrong, of Standing Rock, N.M., checks the blood pressure of a classmate in the nursing program at Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint.

Quit talking about hockey during surgery, B.C. doctors told (Canada)
British Columbia medical officials are warning surgeons to skip the hockey chit-chat in operating rooms to avoid upsetting patients.

Hospital errors -- how to avoid them (KSWB-TV San Diego)
Hospitals don't appear to be as safe as we, the potential patients, would like, a new study has found.

Hospitala s medical records now electronic (Middletown Journal)
McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital is the latest Butler County hospital to adopt electronic medical records.

'Care worker bullied nuns' (Heraldseries.co.uk)
AN ELDERLY nun was starved and other sisters bullied and abused at a cash-strapped convent, an employment tribunal heard yesterday.

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