Nursing - News May 31, 2012

Nursing Home Caregivers Picket To Keep Health Benefits (Clarks Hometown News Patriot)
Members of the largest long-term care union in the state, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East , picketed their workplaces Wednesday to protest the potential loss of health benefits.

Timmies' employees making $20/hr? (The London Free Press)
A hospital Tim Hortons in St. John's that was supposed to make hundreds of thousands of dollars to offset the cost of delivering health care is going fully private after years of losing taxpayer money.

Staff 'insulted' at Kit Kat thanks (This is Guernsey)
Staff who helped their hospital win a national award are said to be "insulted" after they were thanked with a free Kit Kat bar worth 60p.

Trainee nurses, midwives on warpath (The Ghanaian Chronicle)
A QUALIFIED TRAINEE nurses and midwives in the country are up in arms with the government, authorities of the Nurses and Midwives Council and the National Service Secretariat over the delay in their redeployment.

NETC graduates 23 from Associate Degree of Nursing program (Cheraw Chronicle)
The Associate Degree in Nursing Class of 2012 graduated from the program May 11.

Boost for Abergavenny ambulance handover times (South Wales Argus)
AMBULANCE handover times at Abergaveny's Nevill Hall Hospital have been boosted by the start of a pilot scheme to provide more nursing care for patients on arrival.

Doctors Medical Center social worker wins national oncology award (Inside Bay Area)
A Doctors Medical Center San Pablo employee has been named Social Worker of the Year by a national oncology social work organization.

AIIMS-II launched in Haryana village (RxPG News)
It is being built at a cost of Rs.1,000 crore. The new institute would house many such facilities which could not be created in the Delhi AIIMS due to lack of space.

Tribute to twins (Heraldseries.co.uk)
When It Happens Panel Get involved: send your photos, videos, news & views by texting 'OXFORD NEWS' to 80360 or email Wallingford couple Sharon and Gavin Robinson are hoping to raise thousands of pounds for charity after the loss of their baby twins.

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