Nursing - News September 23, 2011

Device helps boost child injections (Midlothian Today)
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow is using the handheld device to illuminate veins in a high-visibility pattern using infrared light.

Layoffs Ahead at Eden Medical Center, Union Says Nurses' Strike is Largest in U.S. History (Patch)
If estimates are accurate, the 23,000 nurses who went on strike Thursday comprise the largest nursing strike in U.S. history, according to the California Nurses Association .

7 honored for being masters in nursing (The Times)
Cheryl Christian, executive director of Good News Clinics, talks about the driving force behind becoming a nurse Thursday during the Masters in the Art of Nursing award ceremony at Brenau University's East Campus.

Education is a calling for new Grass Lake principal (Covington Reporter)
Studying to become a nurse at the University of Washington in 1988, Harjeet Sandhu-Fuller got a job as an intern at the UW Hospital.

Nurses at dozens of Calif. hospitals strike (KFMB-TV San Diego)
Nurses in red union shirts carried signs and chanted slogans outside dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals on Thursday as part of a one-day strike over benefit cuts and other concessions sought by hospital management.

Action urged on Galway hospital overcrowding (Irish Examiner)
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on Health Minister James Reilly to intervene in the overcrowding crisis at University Hospital Galway .

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