Nursing - News April 30, 2012

$Pontefract A&E unit to reopen overnight$

Pontefract A&E unit to reopen overnight (Wakefield Express)
A sub-contracted team of GPs will treat patients along with a nurse practitioner, emergency medicine nursing staff and an anaesthetist.

Study questions whether pacifiers interfere with breastfeeding (ClickOnDetroit)
New research, however, challenges that assertion. In fact, limiting the use of pacifiers in newborn nurseries may actually increase infants' consumption of formula during the birth hospitalization, according to a study released Monday.

Fake nursing schools expose authorities' incompetence (PakTribune)
KARACHI: The mushrooming growth of unauthenticated private nursing schools in the metropolis has raised questions over the performance of health authorities besides exposing their lethargy, our sources has learnt.

Aged care staffing dispute resolved (ABC News)
The Royal Freemasons Benevolent Institution has started recruiting for more registered nurses so they will be on shift around-the-clock at Waratah Village.

Got breast milk? New hospital program in Everett takes donations (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Maren Oates holding her son Henry, 9 months, readjusts the layers of frozen breast milk in her freezer that she is donating to Providence Regional Medical Center's new human milk depot in Everett.

Thousands Join March For Babies (WLWT-TV Cincinnati)
"I feel like it's by the nurses and doctors that took care of her and by the grace of God she's still here, she's definitely a miracle," McCormick said.

'50 Shades of Grey' author embarks on US tour (The Daily Gazette)
Young school teachers, middle-aged nurses and even the elderly flocked to a Miami book store Sunday for a chance to meet the author of the bestselling erotic romance "Fifty Shades of Grey" in the launch of her U.S. book tour.

TJC Bond Would Help Fund New Nursing Facility (KYTX-TV News)
Between texting, tweeting and smartphone apps, it's easy to get to the middle of the month and ask, "where did my data go?" Some sneaky things could be pushing you over your limit.

Bellevue birth center keeping in first 4 months (Washington Examiner)
But 34 babies have been born in the first four months at The Midwife's Place, the state's first freestanding birth center.

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