Nursing - News March 15, 2013

Sick Kids Awards: Veteran earns nomination (scotsman)
The 92-year-old volunteer fundraiser was just ten when he fell through a glass roof while climbing in the 1930s, lacerating both his legs.

Blog PostsNursing Is Critical as the Affordable Care Act Is... (rwjf)
This post is part of a series in which Robert Wood Johnson Foundation leaders, scholars, grantees and alumni offer perspectives on the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the Affordable Care Act.

Nursing students experience life as a patient (yorkpress.co.uk)
Student nurses dressed in their pyjamas to play the part of patients in the clinical simulation unit at the University of York As part of the national NHS Change Day call to action, second-year nursing students at the University of York have been running the clinical simulation unit in the department of health sciences as a ward for the day.

Fiona Irvine Lecture On The Closing Down Specialist Nursing Services In The UK (wrexham)
As part of Glyndwr University's 2012-13 Inaugural and Professorial Lecture Series, Professor of Nursing at Glyndwr Professor Fiona Irvine will support the case for retaining specialist nurses in her talk at the Catrin Finch Centre.

Study finds no rheumatoid arthritis, pollution link (reuters)
Although previous research has suggested a connection between exposure to air pollution and the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, a large new study of nurses finds no link.

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