Nursing - News December 29, 2011

After Christmas death, teen leaves online message behind (MSNBC)
A Texas teen who died suddenly on Christmas Day from a congenital heart condition, is touching thousands of people around the world with a video he posted shortly before his death.

Matthew Cavanaugh for The Boston Globe Wide heart monitor use tied to missed alarms (Boston)
Laurie Bouffard, a cardiac monitor technician, kept an eye on a bank of monitors at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.

Nurse-Ins at Target Stores Brings Breastfeeding to Public's Attention [Poll] (Patch)
It's being called a "maternal twist on civil disobedience." Thousands of mothers are heading to Target store s nationwide today to stage nurse-ins. The public breastfeedings are taking place to protest what organizers are calling a humiliating experience that one mother had while nursing her baby at a Target store in Texas, according to theA ... (more)

Program may ease growing nursing shortage (Newms360)
The Mississippi Office of Nursing Workforce may have accidentally found a way to increase the number of students one nursing educator can reach.

Beyonce About to Give Birth? (KSFO AM 560)
Beyonce may be moments away from having a baby. Reports are circulating that the 30-year-old singer and actress is in labor.

Nursing makes a comeback: Just in time? (Fortune)
FORTUNE Just a few years ago, if you asked a soon-to-be college graduate what career she had her eyes on, you'd be sure to hear usual suspects like management consulting, investment banking, maybe law school.

Nursing Mothers Take a Stand at Target (Patch)
If anyone was shocked at the sight of about a dozen mothers breastfeeding their babies at Target's in-store cafe in Waterford Wednesday, no one said anything about it.

NHS Somerset staff commended by Olympic championUpdated 9:00am... (Yeovil Express)
Inspired by next year's Olympics, nurses and doctors from NHS Somerset collectively clocked up over 2.5million minutes of exercise, losing nearly 1,500lbs of weight as part of a challenge to become healthier.

More Nursing News...