Nursing - News October 31, 2012

Voting in nursing homes, fraud or franchise? (Examiner)
Election board staffers in most counties in America are making special trips to long term care centers this week.

Burien Nursing & Rehab Names Nichole Casado Director of Community Relations (The Waterland Blog)
Ms. Casado, who has 15 years experience in the long term care industry, will be the liaison between doctors, hospital staff, community outreach organizations and Burien Nursing and Rehabilitation.

Nursing Society Educates USF Students about Cystic Fibrosis (The San Francisco Foghorn)
Imagine you meet someone, you fall in love, and you have a baby. That baby has cystic fibrosis, and the first thing that shows up on Google is that your baby is going to die.

Nurses will strike at seven East Bay hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health on Thursday (Contra Costa Times)
Mention nurses in the Bay Area these days and two images come to mind: a caring, nurturing professional at a patient's bedside, and a perturbed, bullhorn carrying protester walking a picket line.

Plan 'transformed' end of life care (Guardian-series.co.uk)
The controversial method of withholding food and drink from terminally ill patients so they die more quickly has "transformed" end of life care, according to an article in a leading medical journal.

At New York University Medical Center, A Dramatic, Critical Evacuation (GPB)
Hospital workers evacuate patient Deborah Dadlani from NYU Langone Medical Center during Hurricane Sandy the evening of October 29 in New York City.

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