Nursing - News February 6, 2012

Donate Breast Milk, Save Preemies' Lives (Patch)
A Every day, I work with new mothers to assist them in nursing their newborns.A If their baby is premature or sick, I help them pump so they can establish and maintain their milk supply.

PhilHealth to deploy nurses as customer relations staff (Sun-Star)
THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation will recruit and deploy registered nurses as customer assistance, relations and empowerment staff to government hospitals to provide better, more personalized services to members at point-of-service. Deployment is expected to start next month once the recruitment and training processes have been ... (more)

As number of nursing school applications increase, students face lack ... (Daily Mississippian)
The University of Mississippi received 340 qualified applications this fall, yet was only able to accept 140.

NJ Nurses Train to Coordinate Their Patients' Care (Patch)
A new crop of nurses is being trained as population care coordinators -- nurses who serve as part coach, part health advocate to improve coordinated follow-up and preventive and wellness care.

Labour attacks Health Bill costs (This is Guernsey)
The money set aside to pay for the changes in the Health and Social Care Bill could pay to prevent the loss of 6,000 nursing jobs Money earmarked for the costs of reorganising the National Health Service could pay to prevent the loss of 6,000 nursing jobs, Labour claims.

Terms of nursing regulator review to be set amid concern over quality of care (The Guardian)
Checks found 'significant weaknesses' in the work of the Nursing and Midwifery Council as complaints rose 41% in a year The body which monitors the NMC found in November that despite improvements, significant weaknesses and risks to the public remained.

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