Nursing - News May 1, 2012

Old nurses' dorm to see new use as arts center (WDBO-AM Orlando)
A long-vacant former nurses' dormitory has gotten a shot in the arm on its way to becoming a regional cultural arts center.

New Wing Added at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla (The Daily Dobbs Ferry)
Shannon Page, right, is staying in the new wing of the hospital with her son Hayden, left, after her daughter Brooke underwent spinal surgery.

Formerly conjoined twins thrive post-separation (The Salinas Californian)
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has given two-year-old twins who were born attached at the chest and abdomen and underwent separation surgery six months ago a clean bill of health.

Heart Attack Survival Varies Widely Among Hospitals, Study Finds (Revolution Health)
The odds you'll survive a heart attack vary widely depending on where you're treated in the United States, according to a new study by Yale University researchers. Hospitals that follow five simple strategies -- including good teamwork and having cardiologists on hand 24/7 -- have twice the 30-day survival rates of other medical centers, the study found.

Bay Area Nurses Set to Strike on Tuesday (NBC Bay Area)
MARCH 20: A U.S. Navy nurse comforts a sick Afghan national policeman during a surgical procedure in the operating room on March 20, 2010 at the military hospital at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.

VA Nurses Scrutinized After Patient Deaths in Two States (ProPublica)
After a patient died last year at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Manhattan, federal inspectors discovered nurses in his unit had a startling gap in their skills: They didn't understand how the monitors tracking vital signs worked.

Codeine use by new moms doesn't up risk of death, hospitalization of infants: Study (Brandon Sun)
Dr. David Juurlink is shown in a 2011 photo. A new study says babies born to nursing women who fill prescriptions for codeine after childbirth are not at higher risk of dying or being readmitted to hospital than infants whose mothers don't take the drug.

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