Nursing - News January 14, 2012

Hospital Errors and Mandatory Reporting (Patch)
Even though medical error reporting is mandated, oftentimesA such incidents go unreported.

Filidoro vouches for quality of local hospitals (News Connection)
When Flower Mound Mayor Pro-Tem Al Filidoro praises the local medical community, he can do it in roles as both civic booster and patient.

Huge disparity in costs to feed patients (Hartlepool Mail)
NHS hospitals are spending as little as 2.57 to feed patients a day - or 86p a meal - according to new figures.

NHS East Lancashire's A 1.7m overspend after A&E unit closed (Blackburn Citizen)
THE closure of Rochdale's A&E unit has put more pressure on East Lancashire's hospitals - and contributed to a A 1.7million budget overspend.

Pomona Valley nurses turned used uniforms to special quilts for cribs of newborns (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Retired Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center nurse Peggy Torrance folds a finished quilt which will be used to cover isolettes in the facilities NICU.

Organizations honor SHU nursing professor (StamfordPlus)
It's been a good few months for Sacred Heart University Nursing Professor Linda Strong, Ed.D., R.N., of Stratford.

Nurses needle feds on US contract (Cast)
Canadian Nurses Association president Judith Shamian is shown in an undated photo.

Three cots for the tots as our festive appeal wraps up (Bognor Today)
Chichester Observer's Ellie Evans presents the knitted baby clothes to nurses Janet Head, and Angela Perry, with Hospital Friends Tricia Roberts and Jac Hepworth.