Nursing - News November 6, 2013

Trust needs to attack flu with jab for all staff - Droitwich Advertiser

Last year just 32.6 per cent of frontline staff at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust had their winter flu jab.

Christus, Cantex to develop new nursing home in South Texas Medical Center - Business Journal

Cantex Continuing Care Network and Christus Santa Rosa Health System will break ground Wednesday on a new skilled nursing facility that will be located next to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital - Medical Center.

Hereford County Hospital nurses on the pulse to raise stroke awareness - Hereford Times

More than 1,000 people in the county are treated by the hospital's stroke team every year, and up to 22 per cent of strokes are caused by Atrial fibrillation , one of the most common forms of abnormal heart rhythm.

B.C. VIEWS: Help the hospital, get a flu shot - The Free Press

Police officer receives a flu shot at the B.C. legislature. Emergency services personnel are immunized every year, and now health care employees who work with the most vulnerable patients have to get one or wear a mask.

Experts debate 'safe' dose of radiation - FOX Carolina

Nursing students study radiation survey instruments as part of a nuclear medicine course at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, in 1958.

Health care law's ground game: Armies of paid workers, volunteers fan out throughout state - The Campbell Reporter

When she answered her front door the other day, East Oakland resident Cynthia Williams, who's been unemployed and without medical insurance for nine years, was greeted by a bubbly 25-year-old woman wondering if she'd heard about the new health care law.

O'Connell Re-Elected as County Clerk - Patch

O'Connell, who defeated Laura A. Gillen, D-Rockville Centre Tuesday, has served as County Clerk since 2006.

Back to school: school nurses lead way to healthy year - The ReView of Jones County

While parents and students prep for back-to-school season, so too do the country's 74,000 school nurses, who are charged with helping maintain a healthy, thriving student body for the 2013-14 school year.

Wansbeck General Hospital staff get naked to raise awareness of testicular cancer - Chronicle Live

A team of male A&E staff from Wansbeck General Hospital in Ashington, Northumberland, have done a naked charity calendar to raise awareness of testicular cancer A team of male A&E staff from Wansbeck General Hospital in Ashington, Northumberland , have done a naked charity calendar to raise awareness of testicular cancer.

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