Nursing - News April 21, 2013

In India, 'no frills' hospitals offer $800 heart surgery (Times of Oman)
What if hospitals were run like a mix of Wal-Mart and a low-cost airline? The result might be something like the chain of "no-frills" Narayana Hrudayalaya clinics in southern India.

Bill Allows Refusal Of Health Care On Moral Basis (CBS Local)
For 35 years, Michigan law has protected health care providers who refuse to perform an abortion on moral or religious grounds.

Number of graduating nurses and midwives to increase (Ubumenyi)
This comes following the resolution by the cabinet meeting to put this portfolio under the Ministry of education.

Doctors, nurses and others reach out for help to make a difference in Kenya (Detroit Free Press)
District 5: Challenges and opportunities: Long-time Brush Park resident Margaret Redmond-Squires talks about the challenges in Detroit's District 5. Rochelle Riley/Detroit Free Press Denise Merriwether, a pre-op nurse at McLarin Hospital in Flint, discovers a kindred spirit outside the clinic on the second night of a three-day tour.

Protecting identities and recycling tax returns (Sun Journal)
A line snaked from the Neuse Boulevard entrance to the hospital to the back parking lot where it weaved between three rows of parked employee cars to reach shredding trucks.

Nurses 'drowning in paperwork' (BBC News)
Nurses are "drowning in a sea of paperwork" with more than one sixth of the working week taken up doing non-essential paperwork, a survey suggests.

On health care, some yap while others act (The Orlando Sentinel)
During one, doctors, pastors and patients swapped stories of inspiration and altruism, urging everyone to help as many people as possible.

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