Nursing - News July 28, 2011

Misrata nurses battle for gender equality amid the fighting (Guardian Unlimited)
Women working at the main casualty hospital in Libyan city are seeing attitudes shift, though men still drive them to work Nurses at hospital in besieged Libyan rebel city of Misrata examine X-ray of wounded fighter.

New tests for newborns create dilemmas for parents: How much do you want to know? (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
You may remember those mean nurses poking your newborn in the heel and drawing blood for tests.

IWK job cuts concern nurses union president (CBC)
Nova Scotia Nurses Union president Janet Hazelton said she worries how patient care will be affected by job cuts at the IWK Health Centre.

Pension contributions 'to increase' (Hillingdon Times)
Public sector workers are to be told they will have to pay up to A 3,000 a year more to keep up their pension schemes, it has been reported.

Partners in Nursing Education (Advance)
Tremendous responsibility is placed on nurses as they practice and learn to accommodate to the accelerating changes and complexity within the U.S. healthcare system.

Woman assumes role as new nursing director in Pender (StarNewsOnline)
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 10:38 a.m. Shirley Steele has stepped through controversy right into a new position at the Pender County Health Department.

GOP lawmaker says nurses treated unfairly (WVLT-TV Knoxville)
A state Republican lawmaker who helped three nurse practitioners get their licenses back says he advocated for them because he felt their constitutional rights were violated.

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