Nursing - News January 2, 2013

U.K norovirus cases exceed 1.1 million (Iol.co.za)
More than 1.1 million people in Britain have succumbed to the norovirus winter vomiting disease so far this season, and health officials expect cases to jump higher after a Christmas and New Year dip.

New Year's Baby (News Channel 34)
Congratulations goes out to the parents of our area's first new Year's baby. Aidan was welcomed into the world at 1:22 am at Lourdes Hospital.

Target culture 'knocks care put of nursing' says expert as he warns... (Daily Mail)
Stifling: Professor Brown, who is director of the National Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work, warned that a target-driven approach was damaging to the nursing profession A generation of nurses and carers have had their compassion 'knocked out of them' by a blindly target-driven workplace culture, an expert has warned.

Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills claims first 2013 baby (Pasadena Star-News)
The first baby of 2013, Dorian Martin Jean Hardy, was born at midnight to Candice Campudoni of Reseda.

Nurse practitioner Helen wins top award (Redditch Advertiser)
A NURSE practitioner in gastroenterology at the Alexandra Hospital has been presented with the regional Ann Barson Award - Gastroenterology Champion and Innovator.

Hospitals going paperless to boost efficiency (WTVM)
On one floor high in Regional Medical Center in Anniston is a room with nothing but rows of desktop computers.

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