Nursing - News September 24, 2011

Parkland board votes to withhold perks (El Paso Times)
Parkland Memorial Hospital's board has voted to withhold perks from managers as it struggles to address patient-care deficiencies that threatened its federal funding.

Nurses on Strike (Patch)
A nursing strike at Bay Area hospitals is over today, but participating nurses at Sutter hospitals and Children's Hospital in Oakland have been told they cannot report back to work before Tuesday, officials said today.

Health (Star)
Continental Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Blanchester is holding its fourth annual Hoxworth Blood Drive on Friday, Aug.

Who'll put the halos back on these nursing angels? (Daily Mail)
Royal College of Nursing general secretary, Dr Peter Carter has criticised youngsters who simply can t or won t care for the patients There are some wonderful nurses in this country.

Visiting nurses are great (Valley News Dispatch)
We often talk about the nurses who work in the hospital and we don't praise all of the them.

Nurses Protest at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Patch)
Nurses at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame joined with more than 23,000 other regional RN's from Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente hospitals Thursday during a one-day strike to protest healthcare cuts for nurses and their concern for patient advocacy rights.

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