Nursing - News July 10, 2012

Boomers are going to be hurting for mental health care (MSNBC)
Getting older doesn't just mean a risk for physical ailments like heart disease and bum knees: A new report finds as many as 1 in 5 seniors has a mental health or substance abuse problem.

What happens if the hospital needs to be evacuated? (Sandusky Register)
Q: Last year when they had the tornadoes in Joplin, the hospital was nearly destroyed.

Retirements put nursing on critical list (Sunday Mail)
HALF of Australia's nursing workforce will retire within 10 years and a fifth will leave within five years, a survey has found.

Monroe College Appoints New Nursing School Chair (The New Rochelle Daily Voice)
It is an exciting opportunity to expand the current program into a baccalaureate degree program with a major in nursing.

Online Nursing Programs Offer Incentives to Address Unprecedented Nurse Shortage (The Beaumont Enterprise)
Accredited nursing programs, hospitals and private organizations are pulling out all the stops to attract enough students to meet historic demand for nurses.

Oakland man takes six-figure pay cut to help the needy (Contra Costa Times)
Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Associate Director Priscilla Joe, foreground, poses with one of the pieces of hospital equipment that she and her husband, Tom Low, right, are trying to bring to less-developed nations through their East Meets West Foundation, Thursday, June 7, 2012 in the NICU in Oakland, Calif.

Parents sue to block changes in home care for children (Chicago Tribune)
A group of parents filed a class action lawsuit today to try to stop the state from changing the way it qualifies medically fragile and technology dependent children for a program that pays for their in-home nursing care.

FDA unveils safety measures for opioid painkillers (FOX 4 Now)
Federal health officials are requiring drugmakers to train U.S. doctors, nurses and other health professionals in the safe use of powerful painkiller drugs that are blamed for thousands of fatal overdoses annually.

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