| Nursing - News January 22, 2014 Local health officials are seeing such a steady stream of people requesting a late-season flu vaccine that some are also having to scramble to order more doses to fulfill the need. Before retiring in 2013, after 35 years of dedicated service to Westchester Medical Center, Registered Nurse and second generation graduate of the Grasslands School of Nursing, Mary Reiser, sat down for an interview and shared her story and her thoughts on nursing and her long career at the Medical Center where she cared for some of the regions ... (more) A GROUP of 75 nurses and midwives from Ireland, Spain and Portugal have chosen to make the life changing decision to move to Wiltshire and begin work at the Great Western Hospital or at one of the Trust's other hospitals or community teams. The move outraged the nurses' union, which said it will file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. "We are fortunate to have a Chief Nursing Officer at Sumner Regional Medical Center who cares deeply about both our patients and our nurses, and who is an excellent manager of patient care and resources," said Susan Peach, CEO of HighPoint Health System, of which Sumner Regional Medical Center is a part. The Care Quality Commission is now better able to protect patients and the public with a new system of inspections, the Commons Health Committee said The hospital regulator is finally heading in the right direction after several years of "superficial" inspections into quality of care, according to MPs. The governor's budget proposal was released Tuesday. It calls for increasing state worker wages by 3 percent starting Jan. 1, 2015. HEALING HANDS: Juniors at Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College, the county's only nursing charter high school, have the opportunity to practice their hands-on patient skills during a recent class. More Nursing News... | | |
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