Nursing - News July 4, 2013

New memoirs by Alan Johnson and Ann Widdecombe: 'Look, I'm like... (New Statesman)
Politicians adore narrative. They spend their careers telling stories, of a sort, in a bid to make sense of reality and create an impression of control.

Nursing a family tradition for interim director at NMSU Carlsbad (Carlsbad Current-Argus)
Since she was a young girl, Claudia Estrada always wanted to be a nurse. It's a dream of hers that has been a reality in the making through her years as an RN at Carlsbad Medical Center and nursing instructor at NMSU Carlsbad.

Fixing up seniors' homes to help them age in place about 1 hour (The Review)
Alberta Hough struggles to feed herself a snack, her arms shaking badly from Parkinson's disease.

Ensign Group Acquires Skilled Nursing Facility (The Motley Fool)
The company announced that, at the end of June, it had closed the acquisition of the Mountain View Rehabilitation and Care Center in Washington state.

Nurses left holding the babies (Evening Times)
AS the country waits for the arrival of the Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge's baby, we go back to the pre-Second World War days when Glasgow's Rottenrow Hospital was having a busy day with new tots.

Hospital gets new beds (Hartselle Enquirer)
The health care system is investing $1.6 million dollars to purchase 179 new Stryker patient beds.

Nursing Home Use by Medicaid Seniors is Plunging (Forbes)
It is a remarkable story: Long-stay nursing home care by seniors enrolled in Medicaid has been plummeting for 15 years.

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