Nursing - News May 15, 2012

Hospitals fear outbreak of stomach bug (Bognor Today)
TWO wards are closed to new patients in Worthing Hospital and restrictions are in place at St Richard's Hospital to avoid an outbreak of a stomach bug.

Prosecutors: Conviction valid in kickback trial (Newms360)
Federal prosecutors say the owner of a nursing services company acknowledged paying a hospital executive for "procuring business" and a judge should not dismiss the corruption charges against him.

RCC pinning ceremony marks completion for nursing students (Richmond County Daily Journal)
Thirty-six graduates of Richmond Community College's Lillian Duer James School of Nursing received their nursing school pins Thursday night at a ceremony held at the Cole Auditorium.

Twin Cities health care workers take strike vote (Post-Bulletin)
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Health care workers at five Twin Cities hospital systems are voting on whether to authorize a strike.

Government 'not masters of the NHS' (IcLichfield)
Labour leader Ed Miliband is set to accuse the Government of acting like "the masters, not the servants" of the NHS.

RCN warns over frontline NHS jobs (This is Guernsey)
More than 60,000 frontline jobs in the NHS, including those of nurses, are at risk of being axed because of spending cuts, with almost half already gone, according to "stark" figures in a new study.

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