Nursing - News August 25, 2011

Parents Who Know of Preemies' Pain More Confident (Fox News)
Parents who are taught to recognize and respond to signs of pain in their prematurely born babies are more confident in caring for their children once they leave the hospital, a new study shows.

Deciding to Die, Then Shown the Door (HeraldTribune)
Armond and Dorothy Rudolph had talked about their plans for more than a decade. They had a mutual horror of a lingering decline in their final years.

Nursing grads earn their pins (Eastern Shore News)
Eastern Shore Community College held a Pinning Ceremony for Practical Nursing grad-uates on Aug.

Graduation ceremony of BIRDEM's Nursing Bridge Programme held (New Age)
The AK Khan Healthcare Trust on Wednesday organised the graduation ceremony of the first batch of Nursing Bridge Programme of the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders.

WellStar breaks ground on tower: Space will allow for nearly all... (MDJonline)
WellStar Kennestone Hospital moved one step closer to having only single-occupancy rooms when the health system broke ground on a new tower Tuesday.

C.diff ward paperwork not completed (Ellon Times)
Nurses on a ward treating patients from a hospital bug outbreak which claimed the lives of 18 people were too busy to fill out some paperwork, an inquiry has been told.

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