Nursing - News September 18, 2011

Fashion is young cancer patients' ego booster (NY Daily News)
Patients Nevaeh Sanchez and Keisalyz Negron, both 4, and Naomi Rodriguez, 6, made a fashion statement at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx.

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

Birthday blessing for little Fatima (Journal Gazette)
Parents, grandparents and friends eat and laugh while children eat and play. The center of attention, however, is Fatima - her blonde hair starting to get long , elfin ears and bright blue eyes charming everyone who held her.

SC's rural hospitals need more than first aid (Fort Mill Times)
New paper room numbers taped on doors, but no patients inside. Chart notebooks in the nurses' station, but no notes in the books, and no nurses.

Closure of beds at St Ita's Hospital is an - insult' (Limerick Today)
THE Health Service Executive have been attacked for their "devastating" decision to close 17 respite care beds at St Ita's Hospital in Newcastle West.

New Surgical Gel Highlights Infections (MyFoxAtlanta)
The gel -- which also kills 80 percent of bacteria in a wound when applied -- will help doctors detect and assess infections quickly using ultraviolet light.

#10 - Nurse awarded Bronze Star for courage under fire in Afghanistan (Hometown Annapolis)
Air Force Maj. Kari A. Miller was awarded the Bronze Star for her work as an intensive care nurse in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

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