Nursing - News October 13, 2012

Never Give Up: Former patient turns illness into inspiration (Pahrump Valley Times)
From a bedridden hospital patient who had given up on life, to vibrant and active volunteer, a two-year battle with illness taught one woman how to trust, and more importantly how to believe in herself again.

Male nurse struck off for having sex with psychiatric patient (The Daily Record)
David Swankie approached the woman at the hospital where he worked and asked her to become Facebook friends, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.

ILCC nursing programs receive accreditation (The Estherville Spirit)
All colleges in Iowa which provide nursing programs must be reviewed and accredited.

SERHA head says overtime hours wrecking nurses, doctors (The Gleaner)
Carl Gilchrist, Gleaner Writer Chairman of the South East Regional Health Authority, Lyttleton Shirley, says overtime work is seriously affecting health professionals and compromising the delivery of care.

A look at the impending nursing shortage (Business Journal)
In addition to a well-publicized shortage of doctors by 2020, health care advocacy groups predict there will be a shortage of nurses as well - one that will potentially affect the nation's health care system in more direct ways than the doctor shortage.

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