Nursing - News June 23, 2013

Free health care clinic in San Bernardino draws thousands (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
When the lumber yard where Johnny Wilson worked was closed in 2008, he lost his medical insurance despite having mounting health issues.

Promise of price cut on hospital bills is in limbo (The Macon Telegraph)
A provision in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul says most hospitals must charge uninsured patients no more than what people with health insurance are billed.

Nursing emotional difficulties (Journalgazette)
Nurses learn stretches from Daniel Burkholder, right, as part of a plan to use therapy to help staff avoid burnout.

Tenn. doctors and nurses square off over care (WMC-TV Memphis)
The growing demand for medical care that is projected to accompany the full implementation of the federal health care law in January is adding urgency to a Tennessee debate over whether nurses should be allowed to provide more independent care to patients.

Fla. struggles with shortage of primary care docs (Polk County Democrat)
Darlene O'Neil just saw a doctor at a mobile health clinic for the first time in months after dropping her health coverage six months ago because she could no longer afford it.

FIFTY years ago they were training together as young nurses. (Oxford Mail)
Now half a century later, they have travelled from all over the world to attend a reunion of those who learnt at Oxford's former main hospital - the Radcliffe Infirmary.

Globetrotting nurses recall good old days (Oxford Mail)
Buy this photo Back, from left: Maryann Hargreave, Prue Luget, Carol Hammond, Liz Reavley, Gill Cooper, Hilary Traylen, Maggie Moore, Maureen Fleming, Liz Casamento.

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