Nursing - News May 2, 2012

Dozens of Sutter Lakeside RNs strike (Lake County Record-Bee)
Dozens of California Nurses Association members who work at Sutter Lakeside Hospital participated in a one-day strike Tuesday in response to ongoing contract negotiations.

SPOTLIGHT: Older students choosing nursing (WSTC-AM Norwalk)
But that diversity will become grayer for the next few years as more middle-age people are going into nursing as a second career.

A killer hospitals pretend to fight (New York Post)
Four times as many people are dying from a hospital infection called C. diff as a decade ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nursing students turn teachers in Kathmandu (Northern Life)
Next week, a group of 11 second- and third-year Cambrian College nursing students will board a plane to travel to Kathmandu, Nepal, where they plan to volunteer with a women's health organization for two weeks.

Fight brewing over DHHS plan to close Penobscot Nursing Home (Bangor Daily News)
A state proposal to close a Penobscot nursing home is, for the second time in a matter of months, focusing attention on the financial challenges faced by senior living facilities in rural Maine and the important roles they often play in communities.

Gloucester County College and Drexel University launch transfer partnership in nursing (NJ)
Susan Hall, dean of Nursing and Allied Health at Gloucester County College, speaks about the agreement between the college and Drexel University for students to be able to continue their nursing education at Drexel, Monday, April 30, 2012.

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