Nursing - News July 23, 2012

Patients' weight becoming a burden for hospital staff (The Salinas Californian)
'In the course of an eight-hour day, a nurse will typically lift 1.8 tons, which is pretty astronomical,' said Amy Williamson, a workplace safety coordinator for Baptist Hospital in Nashville.

Death leads to breast-feed change (The New Zealand Herald)
The death of a two-day-old girl has prompted hospital staff to change their care of mothers breast-feeding in bed, a coroner's inquest has heard.

Hope in the fight against AIDS (Reuters)
The photos in this project, conceived ahead of this week's International AIDS Conference, are not the dramatic, heartbreaking, moving sort that we have been used to seeing of AIDS patients from the '80s and '90s. What I came to quickly realize is that this story, or I should say this portion of it, is about hope - hope and recovery.

Exploring nursing expertise: nurses talk nursing (CiteULike)
Exploring nursing expertise: nurses talk nursing It has become increasingly important for practitioners to articulate their expertise in modern healthcare settings that demand high levels of accountability and evidence-based practice.

At 46, Ohio businessman heading to medical school (WHIO)
A 46-year-old Ohio businessman inspired by the service of others is heading to medical school to become a doctor working in an urban setting.

For male nurses, stigma no barrier (Highlands Today)
Patrick Hickey, nursing supervisor at the Highlands County Health Department clinic in Sebring, gives a patient a yellow fever vaccine on Nov.

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