Nursing - News September 25, 2012

Education, Psychological Support Key for Defibrillator Patients (Science Daily)
Each month, 10,000 people, including children, have a defibrillator implanted to restore normal heart rhythm and prevent sudden cardiac death.

LA Tech Nursing Receives New Simulation Lab (KARD)
A new simulation lab at Louisiana Tech is allowing nursing students to sharpen their skills inside the classroom.

Morning after pill available at N.Y. high schools (24 Hours)
Hundreds of New York City high schools students have received morning-after pills since the launch of a program that provides emergency contraception through public school nurses, the city's health department said on Monday.

Dog quickly takes in, nurses stray kitten in Minn. (Ralston Recorder)
Omaha Public Schools administrators will be expected to spend a lot more time in the classroom this school year, coaching teachers, as part of the district's plan to raise student achievement.

Call to scrap regional pay plans (This is Guernsey)
Most people want the Government to scrap controversial plans for regional pay, believing the move would be unfair on public sector workers, according to new research.

Report: Ohio nurse didn't realize she took kidney (KTHV-TV Little Rock)
A nurse who accidentally disposed of a living donor's kidney during a transplant said she didn't realize it was in chilled, protective slush that she removed from an operating room, took down a hall to a dirty utility room and "flushed down a hopper," according to a report released by health officials on Monday.

Severe illness doesn't stop ECC nursing student from graduating with honors (Daily Herald)
Nicole McDaniel worked full-time at the Elgin Mental Health Center, went to school full-time in ECC's nursing program and fought hyperthyroidism while raising her three teenage sons.

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