Nursing - News April 6, 2013

Rock Benefit to Raise Money for Sandy Victims and Nursing Scholarships (Patch)
Nine of the Jersey Shore's top musicians will come together on April 21 at Jenks Club, Point Beach, to help local victims of Hurricane Sandy and the nurses of Ocean Medical Center.

Faith is sometimes lost in translation (Springfield News-Leader)
When they cock their heads for better understanding, I offer this story. In the late 1990s, I was working at Houston Northwest Medical Center when I found the intensive care unit nurse manager, Grace Heffron, madly flipping though a patient's chart.

Nursing assistant charged with taking $350K from clients estate (Chicago Chronicle)
Retired city engineer Marshall Davies was nearing 90 when a longtime nursing assistant at St.

As Palliative Care Need Grows, Specialists Are Scarce (GPB)
Dr. Martha Twaddle talks to a patient and strokes her hair during a visit at the Midwest Palliative and Hospice CareCenter in Skokie, Ill., in 2012.

Doctors and nurses paid A 40m by drug firms in just one year for consultancy and sponsorship (Mirror.co.uk)
Doctors and nurses pocketed A 40million in payments from the world's biggest drug firms in just one year, it was revealed today.

Holt and Greenstein do a day of work in a nursing home (Courier News)
Putting a face on a budget line item, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J. 12 District, and state Sen.

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