Nursing - News April 12, 2013

Fujitsu Starts Verification Testing of Japan's First Medical Body Area Network (Information Technology)
Fujitsu today announced that it has successfully completed the first verification test in Japan for a medical body area network .

Florida Center for Nursing Receives Funding to Support State Efforts to Transform Health Care (WCTV Tallahassee)
The Florida Center for Nursing announces that the Florida Action Coalition, co-led by the Florida Center for Nursing and the Florida Blue Foundation , has been selected to serve as a grantee for a new The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative to help states prepare the nurse leaders to address our nation's most pressing health care ... (more)

UMass Memorial Nurses Prepared to Strike (Go Local)
Nurses at Worcester's UMass Memorial are prepared to strike, as they schedule an authorization vote for a one-day strike against "poor patient care conditions." Staff members at UMass Memorial hospital have been involved in heated talks with the hospital's administration, with the Massachusetts Nurses Association union at their side.

L.A. County workers demand pay raises (LA Daily News)
With Los Angeles County's budget expected to be in the black for the first time since the recession, thousands of its public employees - social workers, nurses, janitors and others - are saying it is finally time for salaries to start increasing again.

Nurses go on strike at Quincy Medical Center (Boston)
Nurses holding signs and decked in blue coats marched in front of Quincy Medical Center on Thursday morning, shouting demands for increased staffing and chanting in unison about allegedly unsafe patient conditions.

Star award for health worker (Gainsborough Today)
A Bassetlaw Hospital healthcare worker from Worksop has been named Star of the Month for her work with dementia patients.

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