Nursing - News October 13, 2013

Tips On Selecting The Right Nursing Home (Las Vegas Newstrip)
The number of people over age 50 providing care for at least one living parent has soared to more than 10 million, according to the Center for Long Term Care Research and Policy at New York Medical College.

Top NHS managers are helping Basildon Hospital (Basildon Recorder)
MANAGERS from London's Royal Free Hospital came to Basildon Hospital yesterday to help their Essex counterparts find ways to improve patient care.

Marie Curie nurse asks Halton residents to remember cancer charity in their will (Runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk)
Local Marie Curie Nurse, Sue Yates is backing the charity's legacy awareness month throughout October, to ensure that Marie Curie nurses can continue to provide free care to people with terminal illnesses in their own homes.

Tennessee Department of Health reports more Drug Dependent Newborns... (Clarksville Online)
In just slightly more than nine months this year, more babies in Tennessee have been born dependent on drugs their mothers took during pregnancy than in all of 2011.

UH nurses help a dying dad to his daughter's wedding walk down the aisle (Cleveland)
The cancer invading his body doesn't give him much time. A volunteer team of medical professionals gave him enough on Saturday to keep a vow to his daughter on her wedding day.

'My one piece of advice is to check yourself regularly' (Thorne Today)
Not only had Debbie lost both her parents to forms of the disease but she was confronted by the realities of the disease that claims so many lives on a daily basis through her work as a nursing assistant at St John's Hospice.

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