Nursing - News May 6, 2013

Happy and healthy: BMW received a lot of TLC (This is Local London)
Caring vets who carried out life saving surgery on a stray cat are looking for a purr-fect home for him.

Fair Havens Hospice in need of more space (Echo-news.co.uk)
NARROW corridors, bedrooms so tiny relatives have to wait outside and stairs so steep patients are trapped upstairs mean hospice staff are struggling to offer dignified care.

G Cover Caregivers taking on more complex medical tasks (Boston)
The 90-year-old broke her hip last fall and has since become incontinent, needs a walker to get around, takes seven pills daily, and is having increasing memory problems.

5 Lions Clubs Gather to Support Nursing (Patch)
Five Lions Clubs from around northern Westchester County held a joint spaghetti dinner on Sunday for a fundraising to support a nursing scholarships fund.

INMO: Shortage of midwives 'unsafe' (BreakingNews.ie)
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has branded the shortage of midwives in Ireland as unsafe for mothers and newborns.

Jackie's still nursing, 60 years on (Thurrock Gazette)
THE Queen may have celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, but one Thurrock woman is marking her own 60 years in the job.

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