Nursing - News January 6, 2012

West Michigan is older, heavier -- and needs more nurses, according to health care economic forecast (Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance)
We're getting older and heavier, but we're smoking less, cancer rates are going down and fewer babies are born at a low birth weight.

Proposal calls for medical teamwork between doctors, nurse practitioners (Roanoke Times)
Doctors and nurse practitioners are proposing changes to the law that currently requires a physician to supervise a nurse practitioner.

Hospital staff sees pay cuts this New Year (KNDO)
SUNNYSIDE, Wash.-- Employees at Sunnyside Community Hospital got some bad news this New Year, with cuts to their pay and benefits package.

Young woman dies in Abbotsford hospital in hallway bed (Canada)
A 20-year-old woman died on Christmas morning while assigned to a hallway bed on the Cheam 3 medical ward due to overcrowding at Abbotsford Regional Hospital.

Nurses have to be told talk to patients: In a damning indictment of... (Daily Mail)
As he pledges to reverse the declining standard of NHS care in a major speech today, the Prime Minister will say too few nurses understand that caring is their main job, and that everything else comes second.

Hospice provider fraudulently cycled patients through nursing homes,... (McKnightsonline)
Hospice company AseraCare allegedly defrauded Medicare by cycling beneficiaries through nursing homes and hospice care, according to a whistle-blower suit announced this week.

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