Nursing - News July 28, 2013

Newnan's Jean Thomas still nursing after half a century (The Times-Herald)
Imagine rising early in the morning and making rounds at a hospital. Imagine going for 10 hours checking on patients, moving people in and out of surgery, giving out medications where needed, and on top of all of that, being called into surgery at any time of night.

SAfrica: Initiation deaths a problem, doctor says (The Modesto Bee)
In this photo taken Saturday, June 30, 2013 Xhosa boy's stand in a field as they undergo traditional Xhosa male circumcision ceremonies into manhood near the home of former South African president Nelson Mandela in Qunu, South Africa.

My father's seven weeks of hell in Basildon Hospital (South End Standard)
THE daughter of a man who has been in Basildon Hospital for almost seven weeks has described his stay there as an "absolute nightmare".

Manchester woman recalls service in WWII (WHIO)
Manchester resident Florence Parker almost didn't make it back to her native Massachusetts with the rest of her outfit following Germany's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945.

Doctor, nurses on beach rush to save unconscious man (WCTI)
A man in Carteret County is pulled from the water at Fort Macon State Park while unconscious.

NSW nurses rally to demand patient safety (Green Left Weekly)
Mass stopwork meetings of NSW Nurses and Midwives Association members on July 24 resolved that: "Public health system nurses and midwives will escalate their community and workplace campaign to convince the NSW government that the nursing hours/ratios system should be extended to more clinical areas, and improved to guarantee the same minimum ... (more)

Nursing graduates attend 50-year reunion (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
The St. Joseph School of Nursing graduates, Class of 1963, celebrated their 50th reunion June 14 and 15, which started with a social at the home of Jack and Kathleen Walden in Marshfield and was followed with supper at Belvedere Supper Club.

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