Nursing - News May 3, 2011

Drug Shortages Imperil Patient Care (National Public Radio)
California anesthesiologist Michael Port fills a syringe with the anesthetic propofol in 2009.

Should nurses be fired for fatal medication errors? (Kevin, M.D.)
Kimberly Hiatt was a pediatric critical care nurse who accidentally gave an infant a fatal overdose of calcium chloride last year.

Milk banks seek more donors for babes in need (Korea Herald)
With her baby fast asleep in the stroller, Valerie Githinji made her way up to the nurses' station in O'Bleness Memorial Hospital's maternity ward.

Hays Medical Center to open in-patient psychiatric facility for those over 65 (KWCH)
A new in-patient psychiatric facility for those over 65 will open this summer in Hays.

Thousands Of Acute And Critical Care Nurses 'Stand Tall' At Annual... (MediLexicon)
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses brings together thousands of nurses this week in Chicago at its annual National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition with the theme "Stand Tall." AACN President Kristine Peterson, RN, MS, CCRN, CCNS, says the theme goes beyond a simple tagline.

TLC Nursing treats clients like family (Burlington Free Press)
After her husband died in 1995, Sally Dondes was alone in her Burlington home. She had been married for 50 years, taking the midnight train to Burlington in 1945 after she and her husband, Paul, back from the war, took their vows in her parents' home in Massachusetts.

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