Nursing - News July 19, 2013

Music may soothe kids while getting a needle (Lake County Record-Bee)
Nurses Gay Ohlrich, left, and Edie Goldberg, right, double-up to give inoculations to Ava Burka, 6, as her mother, Kristin Burka, comforts her daughter with a reassuring embrace, in the office of Dr. Howard Bennett, a kid-friendly pediatrician, in Washington, Oct. 19, 2006.

Hospital official details layoff... (Observer)
Accurate numbers about how many people were laid off recently at Brooks Memorial Hospital and the Lake Shore Health Care Center have been hard to come by - until Thursday.

Blankenhorn: Nursing Homes Cry All the Way to the Bank (TheStreet)
My mom turned 90 yesterday, so I'm in California celebrating the fact instead of being in my Georgia office.

Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation provides all types of care (NorthJersey)
Some of the pediatric nurses who care for the 92 children at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.The Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, located in Haskell, cares for people of all ages and treats a variety of illnesses and injuries.

What is breast augmentation? What are breast implants? (MediLexicon)
Augmentation mammoplasty, or breast augmentation is a surgical procedure to increase the size, shape or fullness of a woman's breasts.

Court: Not forcing nursing care isn't neglect (The Miami Herald)
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the guardian of an elderly Pierce County woman was not negligent when she didn't force her into a nursing home against her wishes.

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