Nursing - News July 30, 2012

Sebelius To Make Health Care Announcement At Duke (WPTF-AM Raleigh)
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius plans to make an announcement at Duke University about how the Affordable Care Act will impact North Carolina.

New Cedarville nursing school receives accreditation (Business Journal)
Nursing students at Cedarville University. The newly formed Cedarville University School of Nursing has received full 10-year continuing accreditation for its Bachelor of Science in nursing.

4th Choking Death Reported At State Nursing Home In 3 Months (The Hartford Courant)
A resident on a soft-food diet at the Lutheran Home in Southbury choked to death in April after an aide failed to read the meal instructions and served the resident pieces of ham and a hard cookie, according to a state health inspection report released Friday.

Richmond Community College Practical Nurses Receive Nursing School Pins (Richmond County Daily Journal)
Richmond Community College graduated 13 Practical Nursing students Monday night in a ceremony held at the Cole Auditorium.

Nurses navigate the future for head and neck cancer patients (Nurse)
From describing surgery for head and neck cancer patients to guiding them through survivorship struggles, oncology nurses are the navigators for what can be life-changing treatment.

First look at new rehab centre (South Yorkshire Times)
The artists's impression of the facility, which will be based within Montagu Hospital, was unveiled at a meeting of the NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group last Thursday.

Times In-Depth: Nursing-home care isn't cheap in Erie County (Erie Times News)
State officials have said there are more than enough beds to meet the rising demand of the county's aging population.

Coordinated care organizations prepare to launch (SFGate)
Gov. John Kitzhaber and his health care chiefs have spent the past two years trying to convince anyone who will listen that they can fix some of the health care system's most vexing problems: out-of-control costs and less-than-stellar results.

Pierre nursing student's path began in Kenya (WDBO-AM Orlando)
About a decade ago, Rebecca Ekidor was working in a hospital in Kenya. She'd already developed an interest in medicine, and she'd excelled in school.

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