Nursing - News September 17, 2011

Thousands of nurses to strike 34 hospitals Thursday (Contra Costa Times)
Thousands of registered nurses plan to walk off the job at 34 hospitals in northern and central California on Thursday in one of the largest such labor actions here in years.

Cat survives month sealed in school roof (Canada)
A seven-year-old cat, rake-thin and filthy, is doing well after surviving for as long as a month inside the roof of a North Vancouver secondary school.

Tri-Cities Nursing Jobs Are In Demand (KEPR CBS 19)
It's a job that many people just don't want to tap into. "All nurses go through that shock right after graduation, it just hits you like oh my gosh I'm actually responsible by myself for another person," said Nurse Kay Feliciano.

Bright prognosis for LSCC (The Daily Commercial)
Lake-Sumter Community College nursing instructor Marilyn Cole, left, supervises as students Dean Donnelly, Kyla Taylor and Xenia Lascaux practice turning a patient over in bed on Thursday, Sept.

Your guide to selecting the right nursing home (Palm Beach Post)
"People do so much better at home than in a skilled nursing facility," said Richard Hart, director of planning and customer services at the Area Agency on Aging Palm Beach/Treasure Coast in West Palm Beach.

To the people (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Clad in a blue barber's smock, Wade Lipscomb smiled and hugged Yvonne Weidman, a Duquesne University nursing professor, as a contingent of student nurses marched into his Homewood barber shop on Thursday morning.

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