Nursing - News October 24, 2011

'Aunt Ginny' Brings Hope To Children's Cancer Care (The Daily Somers)
Ginny Escobedo, oncology nurse at Westchester Medical Center, has a little-known statistic she wants to share with you: More than 75 percent.

Female Shift Workers May Be At Higher Risk Of Heart Disease (MediLexicon)
Women hospital staff working night shifts may be compromising their own health as they try to improve the health of patients, Dr.

Psychosocial and sexual well-being improves after breast reconstruction: study (Weyburn Review)
Women who lose a breast to cancer report improvements in their state of mind and well-being three weeks after breast reconstruction surgery, a new survey indicates.

Breast cancer survivor now helping her dog (SavannahNow)
The now-54-year-old is cancer-free after a year of chemotherapy, radiation and a bilateral mastectomy - the removal of both breasts.

Undercover nurses saved my condemned mother: Daughter pays 1,000 for ... (Mail on Sunday)
A woman spent 1,000 hiring private carers to go undercover and look after her dying elderly mother in an NHS hospital because nurses were not giving her the attention she needed.

Understanding breast cancer and those who live through it (Washington Times)
October 20, 2011 - In the U.S. an estimated 300,000 cases of invasive and non-invasive breast cancer were diagnosed in 2010.

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