Nursing - News May 20, 2011

A profession that goes beyond duty of care (Bay of Plenty Times)
Wiremu Reedy, a patient in Wanganui Hospital's assessment, treatment and rehabilitation ward, reckons the care he's been receiving from registered nurses Kylie West and Bronwynne Wilson is th When Florence Nightingale was tending British soldiers in the bloody Crimean War in 1854, she recognised that wounded soldiers were dying of injuries that ...

Nursing school celebrates first anniversary (Loudoun Times)
George Washington University's School of Nursing celebrated their first anniversary May 12 at the GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn.

Botswana strike closes hospitals (BBC News)
Most of Botswana's clinics have closed and the main hospital in the capital, Gaborone, is barely functioning due to a civil service strike over salaries.

District nursing leader faces misconduct charges (Enfield Independent)
A DISTRICT nurse faces being struck off after being accused of a catalogue of failings while working in Enfield.

Are delivery rooms busier during a full moon? (WCSH-TV Portland)
As long as people have been around to look at it, the full moon has generated stories, legends and myths.

Riviera Beach nonprofit has eye on $500,000 prize (Palm Beach Post)
Mia Hudson, 3, and her mother, Silvia Hudson at Haverill Baptist School on Wednesday afternoon.The Hudson family had a rough patch this spring when Mia landed in St.

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