Nursing - News December 18, 2012

Nursing in Tanzania (The Brattleboro Reformer)
The Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre sits in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Hospital bed numbers fall to 16,091 under SNP rule, opposition parties claim (The Daily Record)
THE latest figures showed that for the three-month period ending in September this year, there were a total of 16,091 available staffed beds in acute specialities.

Nurses - Being Treated like Slaves' (Arutz Sheva Israel News)
Negotiations between the Nurses' Union and the government broke down Tuesday, leaving the nurses to continue their strike for a third week.

Hospice is a blessing for resident with pancreatic cancer (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Ruth Carson's room at the Garden Estates of Tyler is crammed full of photographs of her children, grandchildren and friends.

UTA unveils robots at new lab (Star-Telegram)
Graduate students Ghassan Atmeh and Adrian Rodriguez look like video gamers as they manipulate a virtual humanoid on their computer.

Stiff fines rare in Ohio nursing homes' violations (WHIO)
The average fine paid by Ohio nursing homes over the past three years for accidental injuries, neglect and other deficiencies was $8,128, or about $2,000 below the national average, according figures from the U.S. Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services recently compiled by ProPublica.

Improved Financial Assistance for Nursing PhDs (Newswise)
The uncertainties of the looming "fiscal cliff" and other threats to federal research funding have necessitated new approaches in financial assistance for prospective PhD students at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing .

McCann Nursing Director Graduates 'Last... (IBerkshires)
Muriel Zraunig has baked her last batch - of nurses. The veteran nurse and educator proudly presented on Monday night her sixth graduating class of licensed practical nurses from the McCann Technical School Practical Nursing program.

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