Nursing - News February 7, 2012

Groton nursing student dispenses medical care and compassion in Haiti (Lowell Sun)
Two years after a magnitude-7 quake hit Haiti, the Caribbean nation remains paralyzed by the destruction, says Fitzgerald, a Boston College senior from Groton.

Curses from nurses over staffing levels (ABC News)
Nurses and midwives gathered out the front of the Hospital yesterday, calling for better patient care and appropriate staffing levels.

Nurses union blasts Gray's take on UMC (Business Journal)
1. The nurses group represents between 300 and 400 registered nurses at the hospital and has demanded a meeting with Gray.

School Nursing Shortage: A Catch-22 for Families (NBC Los Angeles)
When Samuel started kindergarten, his parents tried to work with the school nurse so he would be safe.

Divorced, middle-aged women more vulnerable to HIV (The Japan News .Net)
Newly-divorced middle-aged women are more vulnerable to contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, a study reveals.

5 Things to Know About a Communiversity Degree (Patch)
For Meghan Fischer, of Port Monmouth, and Kevin Moedt, of Middletown, the prospect of paying for four years of college is daunting.

Miliband: Drop NHS reform over jobs (IcTamworth)
Ed Miliband has claimed that 6,000 under-threat nursing jobs could be protected with the money saved from abandoning the Government's NHS reforms.

"Malaria cure" claim sparks Vienna probe (Pretoria News)
A Vienna hospital is searching for long-retired staff who might hold clues to a man's claim that he was deliberately infected with malaria when he was a psychiatric patient nearly half a century ago.

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