Nursing - News October 14, 2013

Hospitals Cut Payrolls (Hispanic Business)
Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are starting to cut thousands of jobs amid falling insurance payments and inpatient visits.

Behrend professors teach Spanish to Saint Vincent nurses, secretaries (Erie Times News)
Carolyn Scott isn't listening to music these days when she drives to and from work at Saint Vincent Hospital.

1 NHS hospital in 3 going abroad in hunt for new nurses (Daily Mail)
One hospital in three is going abroad in hunt for new nurses: Managers travel to Greece, India and the Philippines in a bid to tackle understaffed wards NHS managers are travelling to countries including Poland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, India and the Philippines in the drive to recruit nurses.

HPV in Women Who Have Sex with Women (Advance)
The population of women who have sex with women is composed of several demographic groups: lesbians, bisexual women and women who self-identify as heterosexual but have had sexual experiences with women.

Hospital works to stub out smoking (Columbia Daily Herald)
Maury Regional Medical Center is renewing efforts to educate the public about smoking hazards as cigarette use continues to be a problem on the hospital's campus.

NHS trusts recruit overseas nurses (This is Guernsey)
Of the 105 acute trusts that responded to a Freedom of Information request, 40 had actively recruited nurses from overseas in the last 12 months At least a third of hospital trusts in England have turned to actively recruiting nurses from overseas as they struggle to keep wards adequately staffed, an investigation has found.

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