Nursing - News November 17, 2011

Nearly 100 evacuated from West Palm nursing home after carbon monoxide alarm (Palm Beach Post)
There are no reported injuries and a patient was transported to St. Mary's Medical Center on an unrelated call, said West Palm Beach Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Diana Matty.

Nursing Excellence Recognized at Hospital for Special Surgery for a Third Consecutive Time (Newswise)
Newswise - The American Nurses Credentialing Center today announced that Hospital for Special Surgery in New York has received its third Magnet designation, a status shared by only a select group across the country.

Nursing jobs cut at five hospitals (Canada East)
Horizon Health Network has confirmed that 26 registered nurses from five New Brunswick hospitals will lose their current jobs as Horizon attempts to slash more than $4 million from its annual budget.

New standards for hospital construction should cut patient infections (Weyburn This Week)
A new made-in-Canada standard for the construction of new hospitals and the renovation of existing ones was unveiled Wednesday.

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Texas Tech nursing students enjoy new equipment (Odessa American Online)
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center President Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell, right, talks with Jack Wood, left, and his father, Clay Wood at the announcement Wednesday morning of a $1 million gift from the Wood Family Foundation to TTUHSC to equip the new clinical simulation center at Medical Center Hospital.

Nurses say over 80 waiting to be admitted at Limerick Regional Hospital (Limerick Today)
OVER 80 patients were waiting to be admitted - including around 30 on trolleys in the emergency department - at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital yesterday in what nurses have described as the worst day of overcrowding since they suspended their industrial action four weeks ago.

Fla. Nurses Vote NNU, Health Care Workers at VA Choose AFGE (AFL-CIO)
Registered Nurses at Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah, Fla., last night overwhelmingly voted-86 percent-to join National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida, the state affiliate of National Nurses United .

The Role of Spirituality in Nursing (Buzzle)
Spirituality in nursing is as important as compassion when caring. However, this important aspect in the profession of nursing has not been given the due attention as it deserves, thereby arising the need to divert one's focus on spirituality as a fundamental essence of nursing.

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