Nursing - News September 2, 2011

Nursing tops list of high-paid jobs of the future (MSNBC)
If you decided on a new career path today, wouldn't you like to know which jobs will be in high demand and pay the most once you were out of school? To serve as a guide, 24/7 Wall St.

What's up, doc? Investors knock at China hospitals (Reuters)
Doctor Ji Jiafu operates with his staff on a cancer patient in an operating theatre in the Beijing Cancer Hospital July 12, 2011.

SLU studying flu vaccines in breastfeeding mothers (Bellingham Herald)
Researchers at Saint Louis University are studying two flu vaccines to see if nursing mothers pass immunity to influenza to their babies.

Nursing home residents move to new facilities in Maggie Valley (The Mountaineer Publishing Company)
Teresa McDonald, director of Nursing Services, holds open the door for resident Loretha Sales as she enters the new Maggie Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation building for the first time.

Nurses advocate transaction tax on Wall Street (Post-Tribune)
Registered nurse Tina Boersma, who lives in Crown Point and works at the University of Chicago, is joined by community members Wayne and Vicki Anderko of Schererville and Dave Whitaker of Wheatfield as they participate in a rally in front of Rep.

Getting Doctors to Wash Their Hands (The New York Times)
A new study has a message for doctors and nurses who fail to wash their hands: Don't think about yourself.

Nurses: Overcrowding reaching crisis point in Galway Hospital (Irish Examiner)
Nurses say overcrowding in the emergency department at University College Hospital Galway is reaching crisis point.

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