Nursing - News November 1, 2011

Toyota: Meet Your Robo-Nurse (WPTZ-TV Plattsburgh)
Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled its answer to the projected shortage in human nurses -- health care robots -- which it plans to put on the market within two years.

'Fecal transplants' show promise for gastrointestinal ills (WAFB-TV Baton Rouge)
TUESDAY, Nov. 1 -- They sound disgusting, but doctors say "fecal transplants" -- once shunned by the medical establishment -- are proving useful against a range of gastrointestinal ailments, new research says.

Toyota Unveils Nursing Robots To Help Elderly (WISW-AM Columbia)
Toyota says it will start selling robots that help sick and elderly people walk and balance themselves better.

Grass Valley nursing home implicated in patient's death gets severe fine (Sacramento Bee Newspaper)
A Grass Valley nursing home has been fined $75,000 and received a Class "AA" citation, the most severe penalty under state law.

Study identifies safety issues for hospital patients who go outside to smoke (The Winnipeg Free Press)
Researchers tried to find some answers by questioning patients, health-care professionals and other staff at two large acute-care hospitals - the University of Alberta Hospital and Winnipeg's Health Science Centre.

Household Nurse Levindale Hebrew Geriatri... (Nurse)
A member of LifeBridge Health, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital is an internationally recognized leader in gerontological care.

Conjoined girls to be separated in Calif. hospital (KMPH-TV Fresno)
Doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital are planning a nine-hour procedure Tuesday that, if successful, will allow Angelica and Angelina Sabuco to live independently from each other.

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