Nursing - News September 23, 2013

Houston Rodeo Grant Assists Nursing Doctorate Degree Students (Newswise)
A gift of $450,000 from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeoa is helping launch a second group of students in the Accelerated Ph.D. Scholars Program of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing.

Hospital told to boost cleanliness (This is Guernsey)
Dirty patient equipment was discovered on a ward for the elderly during a visit by the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate to Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary.

Hospitals step up norovirus battle (Worcester News)
TIGHTER restrictions on hospital visiting and a crackdown on hand-washing are part of a new campaign to stop the winter sickness bug norovirus in its tracks.

NICU program that gives parents charge of baby's care cuts stress, helps infant (Brandon Sun)
Jennifer Tano slips her hands through the openings in the isolette, gently snugging into place what seems like an impossibly tiny diaper on her infant son Thomas.

Breast-feeding problems common for first-time moms (KNDO)
The notion of new mothers easily and comfortably breast-feeding their newborns is challenged by new research that indicates nursing problems are a near-universal experience among first-time moms, and those reporting early concerns are nearly 10 times more likely to abandon breast-feeding within two months.

Patients' strapping efforts for life-saving breast team (This is Oxfordshire)
Buy this photo Surgeons Niki Petrie and Titus Adams abseil down the Women's Centre at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital to raise money for the Breast Reconstruction Awareness Group THEIR faces said it all: first terror and then relief as, two by two, they lowered themselves 100ft over the side of a hospital.

Surge in mental patient attacks at Sunderland hospital (Sunderland Echo)
Figures obtained by the Echo reveal there were 105 patient-on-patient attacks at the hospital in the 16 months between January 2012 and April this year.

Award for saving a babya s life inspires Karikari community (Scoop)
An act of courage in saving the life of a two-month old baby with CPR skills has not only earned NorthTec nursing student Caroline Snowden the prestigious Royal Humane Society of New Zealand citation, but has also inspired her Far North, Karikari Peninsula Community to offer CPR lessons.

My experiences at the SEIU Healthcare PA Leadership Convention (Daily Kos)
Last week I spent most of Thursday and all of Friday at the Bi-annual Convention of SEIU Healthcare PA in Lancaster, PA.

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