Nursing - News May 19, 2013

UHV student receives Salute to Nurses scholarship (The Victoria Advocate)
The Second Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing student was one of five from the Houston area to receive a $1,500 scholarship as part of the Houston Chronicle's Salute to Nurses event.

'Surgeon Must Say Sorry for Nightmare Op' (Kidderminster Shuttle)
A KIDDERMINSTER nurse who had a pair of seven-inch forceps left inside her after surgery has said she wants someone to take responsibility for the mistake.

Main image for 'I'm dying, but my twins keep me smiling' (This is Hull)
But brave Vicki, of Anlaby, says she is determined to make her final months special for her twins - and stay as positive as she can through the arduous ordeal.

61 graduate from St. Elizabeth College of Nursing (WKTV)
A new generation of nurses are celebrating their graduation from the St. Elizabeth College of Nursing on Saturday.

Nurse sacked for slapping violent patient keeps job (The New Zealand Herald)
A nurse sacked for slapping a violent mental health patient who spat in his face has been allowed to keep his job.

Faulkner jury awards $5.2 million in nursing home negligence case (Arkansas Times)
A Faulkner County jury returned a unanimous verdict last night that the Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center had been negligent in treatment of Martha Bull, 76, who died at the nursing home April 7, 2008 after staff failed to act on a doctor's orders to get her transferred to a hospital emergency room for treatment of severe abdominal pain.

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