Nursing - News November 14, 2013

NDP says documents show Alberta government plans to cut about 200 nursing jobs - Squamish Chief

The New Democrats say Alberta Health Services is planning to cut about 200 full-time nursing jobs across the province.

COLCHESTER'S hospital trust has been placed into special measures in the wake of the cancer scandal. - Braintree and Witham Times

Monitor, the health sector regulator, announced today that following a formal investigation found Colchester Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has breached its licence to provide health services.

Plea from East Lancs Filipinos for local effort to aid victims of Typhoon Haiyan disaster - Burnley Citizen

FILIPINO nurses living in East Lancashire are urgently seeking funds to help the millions of victims of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan.

Nursing home boss forced dentures into dead woman's mouth - Morecambe Visitor

A nursing home manager who forced a set of dentures into a dead woman's mouth has been struck off.

Governor to seek money to recruit medical workers - Las Cruces Sun-News

SANTA FE >> Gov. Susana Martinez plans to ask the Legislature for $1.5 million next year to expand programs that can help bring nurses, dentists and other medical providers to rural areas of New Mexico.

Divided Mich. Senate Votes to Expand Nurses' Role - WILX-TV Lansing

Nurse practitioners and other nurses with extra training could practice in Michigan without oversight by physicians and prescribe drugs under legislation that has cleared a hurdle in Lansing.

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