Nursing - News September 28, 2011

Lab technician tops list of 15 most-caffeinated jobs (Business Journal)
Lab technicians top a list of coffee-addicted professions compiled by Dunkin' Donuts parent Dunkin' Brands and jobs site CareerBuilder.

Limerick nurses warn shortages affecting patient safety (Irish Examiner)
Health Minister James O'Reilly is being warned that patients lives are being put at risk because of staff shortages in hospitals around the country.

Workers at nursing home in Saginaw vote to join new union (WNEM-TV Saginaw)
Workers at Luther Manor Nursing Home in Saginaw voted by more than a 2-to-1 margin to leave the Service Employees International Union and join a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers .

Nursing student helps deliver neighbor's baby (New York Daily News)
Nikesha Morrison a nursing student, and Aionga Pereira a midwife and also a nursing student, sprung into action to help deliver a baby.

Harrisburg-based hospital system retains nursing distinction (PennLive)
The CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery system can treat many complex conditions-including cancer-without surgery at PinnacleHealth-Fox Chase Regional Cancer Center.

More (Broward-Palm Beach)
A single scene captures the tricky tonal balance of Jonathan Levine's cancer comedy 50/50 . Adam, the straightedge radio producer played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has just finished his first round of chemotherapy.

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