Nursing - News February 11, 2013

Fla. enhances program for disabled children (WINK-TV Fort Myers)
Florida will assign care coordinators to about 1,600 children with disabilities amid allegations from federal health officials that the state was cutting in-home services and essentially forcing kids into nursing homes.

Time to get nominating for Director of Nursing Awards (Andover Advertiser)
PATIENTS and their relatives who want exceptional staff from Basingstoke hospital to be recognised and rewarded are being invited to nominate them for a special awards event.

Leaving hospital? Heed care tips or you may return (The Republic)
Michael Lee knew he was still in bad shape when he left the hospital five days after emergency heart surgery.

Leaving hospital? Heed care tips or you may return (WHBF-TV Rock Island)
30, 2013 shows patient Marlena Bechtel-Rysdam, right, from Elgin, Ore., going over home monitoring training materials with registered nurse Christina Leese at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Ore.

Nursing junior Arya Singh died Friday (Daily Pennsylvanian)
Nursing junior Arya Singh died Feb. 8 after being taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University Communications confirmed.

Praise for Infirmary scheme (Arbroath Herald)
STAFF at Arbroath Infirmary are celebrating after scooping an NHS Tayside award for developing a new scheme that aims to get elderly patients back in their communities more quickly.

Wedding: Kerry Mallon & Lawrence Nash (Daily Record)
7 for the marriage of Kerry Mallon and Lawrence Nash. Monsignor Richard Guastella celebrated the afternoon nuptial mass.

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