Nursing - News June 1, 2012

Correction: Choosing-Nursing-Homes story (The Miami Herald)
In a story May 23 about choosing nursing homes, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires patients get a minimum amount of daily attention from a nurse and nurses aides.

In Australia, Where Not To Have A Heart Attack (MediLexicon)
Every single town in Australia has been rated on its proximity to cardiac care, before and after a heart attack, in a new report published in Circulation and headed by Queensland University of Technology .

NTC adds more nursing students (WOZZ-FM Appleton)
WAUSAU, Wis. Northcentral Technical College is admitting more students into its nursing program in response to a projected nursing shortage.

Nursing home workers get new contract (Toledo Blade)
Wood County commissioners Thursday approved a new three-year contract with unionized employees of Wood Haven Health Care, the county-owned nursing home.

Recent nursing school graduate saves man's life at Kauffman Stadium (KCTV5)
Ryan Walker, 23, had just graduated from nursing school at Concorde College. He was headed to a Royals game at Kauffman Stadium.

HealthSouth wants judge to decide Jefferson County nursing home challenge (Alabama Live)
HealthSouth Corp. is wanting a judge to hear arguments in its challenge to a company's plans to replace Jefferson County's nursing home with two new ones in Vestavia and Hoover, further delaying the county's planned $8.3 million sale of its nursing home beds.

State bill would let nurses prescribe the pill (RecordNET)
California women would no longer have to make an appointment with a doctor to get birth control pills under a bill approved by the state Assembly.

Manatee Memorial cited for nursing staff shortages (Bradenton)
Manatee Memorial Hospital has been cited for employing a nursing staff that was thinner than what the state considered safe, records show.

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