Nursing - News September 21, 2011

Southern California Kaiser workers go on strike (The Press-Enterprise)
Kaiser Permanente employees in Southern California are staging a walkout to protest proposed benefit cuts and a lack of progress on contract talks.

'Alarm fatigue' cited in Worcester patient death (Cw56)
UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester is stepping up efforts to prevent nurses from tuning out monitor warning alarms following the death of a patient whose alarms signaling a fast heart rate and potential breathing problems went unanswered for nearly an hour.

Nursing home closure forces resident to live in a hospital (WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg)
The state had insisted that Harmony Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center stop operating by September 22, but the Agency for Health Care Administration says the last patient was discharged on September 12.

McGuinty warns of Tory trifecta in Ontario (Canoe)
"I've observed them at close hand for 21 years. I've seen the whites of their eyes," McGuinty said.

ISU opens $2.7 million nursing lab (WEHT)
The Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington reports that the Mennonite College of Nursing lab is a 10,000 square-foot simulation of a hospital unit.

NEIT's new campus further opens learning opportunities (Warwickonline)
LOTS OF SPACE, MUCH TO LEARN: The NEIT campus in East Greenwich represents the next generation in the institution that has been providing Rhode Island with skilled workers for years.

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