Nursing - News July 26, 2013

Nursing instructor wins award (Fairfield Citizen-News)
A Fairfield resident, Pomarico received the league's Jane E. Murdock Life Long Learning Award at the organization's leadership conference in Portland recently.

Nurses at Portland hospital discuss unionization (Sunherald)
Meetings have been held to discuss the issue, although it doesn't appear that a vote on whether to form a union has been scheduled.

Senate Hearing To Follow Lawsuit Over Kids In Nursing Homes (CBS Local)
The chairwoman of a Senate committee says she will hold a hearing about the state's record of placing children with disabilities in nursing homes when the Legislature resumes committee meetings in September.

Autumn Care Nursing & Rehabilitation (The Mountaineer Publishing Company)
Autumn Rehab Plus is an individualized program of therapy that can involve any or all of our rehabilitative services including: : improves ambulation, mobility, balance, transfers, range of motion, and manages pain.

Nurses say St. Luke's Hospital is being bled (New York Daily News)
Nurses and hospital officials gather to fend off potential cuts to services at St. Luke's Hospital, which is owned by Continuum Health Partners.

Metal fabricating, nursing care top serious Iowa workplace injuries (The Gazette)
If you operate metal fabricating machinery or work in nursing or residential care facilities, you are more likely as an Iowan to sustain a serious workplace injury that will cause you to miss a day or more of work.

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