Nursing - News April 29, 2013

After disasters, hospitals pay it forward (Click Orlando)
The week of April 15 brought two horrific events: The Boston Marathon bombings and the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion.

After disasters, hospitals pay it forward (KCCI-TV Des Moines)
The week of April 15 brought two horrific events: The Boston Marathon bombings and the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion.

Unison to ballot 3,000 members at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust (Hemsworth and South Elmsall Today)
Unison members working at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust will be balloted for strike action in a long-running dispute over pay cuts and job losses.

Nursing chiefs concerned at rocketing A&E times (Daily Echo)
NURSING chiefs have summoned Southampton hospital bosses to urgent talks after the Daily Echo revealed waiting times in the city's accident and emergency department have rocketed.

Japan to promote robots for nursing home care (Bangor Daily News)
The Japanese government plans to extend financial assistance to help firms develop low-cost nursing care robots with a price tag of about 100,000 yen as a major feature of its economic growth strategy, government sources said.

Colorado Health Foundation awards CMC a grant to support potential bachelor's in nursing (Glenwood Springs Post-Independent)
Nursing students working toward an associate degree practice IV techniques in a class at Colorado Mountain College.

Schoolcraft's nursing programs earn additional accreditation (Farmington Hills Observer)
The associate degree and practical nursing programs at Schoolcraft College recently received additional accreditation from the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.

'Nothing we can do' for Lyme disease as costly treatment option denied (Times Herald-Record)
Scores of local victims of a disease they say makes them so weak they can't drive, think clearly or make tea without laying down are being denied insurance payments for treatment of that disease.

The W celebrates 40 years of nursing program (Newms360)
They came from across the nation, their hair perhaps a little grayer, their steps perhaps a little slower, but their faces as alight with enthusiasm as they were the first day they stepped on campus at Mississippi University for Women.

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