Nursing - News September 24, 2013

Watford General hip op procedures beefed up after high death rate revealed (Watford Observer)
Procedures for patients undergoing surgery for hip fractures at Watford General Hospital have been bolstered after it emerged it had a high death rate for the operations.

JAMA: Medicare Expenses for Patients with Heart Attacks Increase Between 1998 and 2008 (Cath Lab Digest)
September 23, 2013 - Medicare expenses for patients with acute myocardial infarction increased substantially between 1998 and 2008, with much of the increase coming in expenses 31 days or more after the patient was hospitalized, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

A mother's lament: Five years after son's death, Los Gatos mom wants legal changes (Inside Bay Area)
Adam Glover, her only child, exists now only in photographs that she carries in a beige folder.

Hospital complaints rise in Scotland by 13%, according to official figures (The Daily Record)
THE 35-year-old operations director claims he found a recording device in a plant pot containing artificial flowers at the headquarters in East Kilbride.

Aurore Eaton's Looking Back: The Notre Dame de Lourdes School of Nursing a " a legacy of service (UnionLeader)
By the early 1950s, the accreditation requirements for nursing schools had evolved to the point where the Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital School of Nursing in Manchester was no longer able to offer the full range of classroom instruction required.

PWhitelam_LE published Lincolnshire hospitals recruit 40 foreign nurses (This is Lincolnshire)
Around 40 nurses who have been recruited in Spain and Portugal are due to start work in Lincolnshire hospitals in a few weeks' time.

Son of hospital fall woman calls for more nursing staff (Darlington and Stockton Times)
A MAN who has pressed for answers about the death of his mother for more than five years, has appealed for more nursing help for vulnerable people.

Married cancer patients are more likely to survive (USA Today)
Married people with cancer were 20% less likely to die from their disease, compared to people who are separated, divorced, widowed or never married, according to study published online Monday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

New nurses struggle to find jobs in Alberta, union says (CBC News)
United Nurses of Alberta spokeswoman Karen Craik says workforce transformation at AHS is resulting in fewer full-time RN jobs in Alberta.

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