Nursing - News February 25, 2013

UMHB dedicates Nursing Education Center (The Belton Journal Community News and...)
More than 500 people were in attendance on Friday as UMHB held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Isabelle Rutherford Meyer Nursing Education Center.

Kingston Hospital: The hospital whose doctor and midwife "failed" baby Lucy (This is Local London)
Accident and emergency waiting times at Kingston hospital rose only slightly last year despite spending cuts, figures show.

Nursing crisis: 190,000 nurses "axed by 2016" according to Government report (Mirror.co.uk)
The study notes up to a third of the existing 600,000 will retire in a few years, leaving a huge deficit The study notes up to a third of the existing 600,000 will retire in a few years, leaving a huge deficit, the Sunday People reports .

Nurses accept new pay offer (Yahoo!)
WA nurses have accepted an in-principle pay offer from Premier Colin Barnett, putting to an end industrial action which has played havoc in public hospitals in the past week.

After 46 years, maternity director earns a break (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
A love of caring for babies led Barb Piper to a job in the maternity department at Sacred Heart Hospital.

FDA Panel Backs Brain Stimulator for Epilepsy (HON)
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel has unanimously backed a device that lowers the rate of seizures among people with epilepsy.

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