Nursing - News August 30, 2012

Families face difficult decision as hospice care grows (SanLuisObispo)
Daniel Franklin Lankford survived three tours of duty in the jungles of Vietnam.

BUPA nurse gave 2 paracetamol to Blackburn woman, 97, for broken neck (Blackburn Citizen)
A 97-YEAR-OLD woman who broke her neck at a BUPA care home was given just two paracetamol tablets for the pain, a hearing was told.

LRC to chair talks over Louth/Meath hospital cuts (RTE.ie)
The Labour Relations Commission has agreed to chair talks between trade unions representing staff in the Louth/Meath Hospital Group and the Heath Service Executive.

Former nursing home administrator sentenced (KGET-TV Bakersfield)
A former administrator at a Lake Isabella nursing home was sentenced to three years probation Wednesday for allowing patients to be drugged to keep them in line.

Louisiana Guard Troops Empty Nursing Home as Floodwaters Surge (Bloomberg)
Officials in Louisiana 's flooded Plaquemines Parish coordinated the pickup of 112 nursing home residents after officials worried levees would break.

Ex-CEO of Kern County nursing home sentenced (My Mother Lode)
The former chief executive of a Kern County nursing home has been sentenced to three years of probation for allowing staff members to forcibly drug elderly patients, including three who died.

Nursing scholarship serves as a - validation' (The Daily Vidette)
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has awarded the Minority Nurse Faculty Scholarship to Susana J. Calderon, diversity outreach coordinator in the Mennonite College of Nursing.

Larkin Community Hospital launching nursing school (Business Journal)
Larkin Community Hospital announced that it would launch a nursing school on its campus.

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