Nursing - News May 3, 2013

Union decries Vaal patient's death (Iol.co.za)
A lack of doctors caused the death of a patient at the Johan Heyns community health centre in Vanderbijlpark on Friday, nursing union Denosa said.

Nurses tried to give patient wrong medication following notes mix-up (South End Standard)
Carol Drury, 61, was handed tablets designed to treat patients recovering from heart operations during her stay at Basildon Hospital.

Hospitals urged to launch recruitment drive as nursing crisis looms (This Is Somerset)
Hospitals across the West could face a shortage of hundreds of qualified nurses and midwives within a couple of years unless major recruitment drives happen overseas.

Can the North Country make nursing homes work? (North County Public Radio)
Many nursing homes around the state are seeing big financial losses, and the situation is the same, if not worse, here in the North Country.

HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley Opening in Westwood June 1 (Patch)
HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley is set to open June 1, exactly 54 years after the Pascack Valley Hospital first opened in Westwood on June 1, 1959.

SEIU-UHW claims victory in Kaiser union election, via Tweet (Business Journal)
The Service Employees' International Union and its Oakland-based United Healthcare Workers' West local have claimed victory in a re-run of a controversial union representation election at Kaiser Permanente .

Life Care Bestows Its 22nd Annual Directors Of Nursing Awards (Chattanoogan)
Ms. Lim has led her nursing team to achieve the best annual state inspection scores in the Yuma area.

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