Nursing - News January 27, 2013

View Of Organ Donation Shifting In Lakota Culture (KDLT-TV Sioux Falls)
Researchers, tribal elders and health care professionals are working to bridge the gap between the decline in Native American health and living organ donations.

Career Transitions in Nursing (Advance)
The importance of orientation cannot be underestimated. Managers and colleagues have a big role in this process, as stress and trepidation can be amplified when the orientation process is mediocre.

Olean General Warns Almost 2,000 Of Risk, After VA Troubles With Insulin Pens (WBEN-AM Buffalo)
Olean General Hospital is warning almost 2,000 patients about diseases that may have been transmitted by the re-use of insulin pens meant for a single patient.

Berkeley: Patient rooms at Alta Bates without heat, hot water during repair work (Inside Bay Area)
Patient rooms at Alta Bates Medical Center were without heat or hot water Saturday after the hospital began steam work repairs at 10 a.m., an official said.

Loyola DNP Nursing Professor Part of $1.3 Million Colorectal Cancer Study (The Beaumont Enterprise)
Loyola DNP Nursing Professor Part of $1.3 Million Colorectal Cancer Study Today, Loyola University New Orleans School of Nursing announced that professor Laurie Anne Ferguson, D.N.P., A.P.R.N., F.N.P.-C., is an integral part of a five-year, innovative colorectal cancer study funded by a $1.3 million grant recently awarded from the American ... (more)

Kennewick, Prosser hospitals donate to WSU Tri-Cities nursing school (Tri-cityherald)
Kennewick General Hospital and Prosser Memorial Hospital Foundation are donating toward renovation and equipment costs for Washington State University Tri-Cities' new nursing facility in Richland.

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