Nursing - News November 8, 2011

Hospital bed-blocking 'rising' (BBC News)
The problem - known as bed-blocking - happens when support from social care or district nursing is not available in the community for vulnerable patients.

Heart-kidney recipient to thank St. Louis hospital (KAIT-TV Jonesboro)
Seventeen months after becoming the first person in Missouri to receive a combination heart and kidney transplant, Jonathan Sadowski is returning to Barnes-Jewish Hospital to reunite with the intensive care doctors and nurses who cared for him.

Do contract workers providing government services really save taxpayers money? (Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance)
A story in The New York Times today examines the trend toward outsourcing government jobs and uses healthcare workers in Grand Rapids as an example.

A Randomized Trial of Single Home Nursing Visits vs Office-Based Care ... (Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent M...)
Objective To compare office-based care with a care model using a home nursing visit as the initial postdischarge encounter for "well" breastfeeding newborns and mothers.

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iPad in Healthcare: Not So Fast (CIO)
CIO - A handful of clinicians at Seattle Children's Hospital gave iPads a test run, using them to tap into the corporate network and run critical apps in a virtual desktop environment.

Nurses' anger at parking charges (Anders Jacobsen's blog)
Health workers at a Glasgow hospital are due to stage a protest later over a 113% increase in parking fees.

Online doctorate at UWG aims at solving nursing shortage (Rome News)
The University System of Georgia is using computers to address the state's shortage of nurses.

Pratt Student Designs Uniforms for Kips Bay Hospice Nurses (DNAInfo)
Pratt Institute student Hannah Ross was awarded a $2,500 scholarship and the opportunity to have her design produced and worn by the nursing staff at Haven Hospice Specialty Unit.

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