Nursing - News January 30, 2014

UPMC Altoona, nurses to talk despite strike vote - Sunherald

UPMC Altoona spokesman Dave Cuzzolina says the bargaining session will happen Friday and says, "The hospital is encouraged and sees this as a favorable step."

College students should get a flu shot - WTHR-TV Indianapolis

Beginning in 2015, U.S. businesses with 50 or more workers must provide health insurance to "full-time" employees, meaning workers who log at least 30 hours a week, on average.

Five health services tendered as one contract - Gazetteandherald.co.uk

Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group is going to tender children's community health services with the aim of having them run under one contract rather than the existing five.

Greenfield hospital nurses announce strike - Washington Times

Nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield have announced that they plan a one-day strike for next month.

Sex assault nursing program may expand to Iberia - KRMG-AM Tulsa

A program that trains nurses to conduct forensic sexual assault exams in Lafayette emergency rooms since 2006 expanded to St. Martin Parish last year and plans to continue its outreach into Iberia Parish later this year.

Sharp dip in town's pregnant teenagers - This is Wiltshire

SWINDON has well and truly shed its reputation as the UK's teenage pregnancy capital with a drop of 42.4 per cent in the number of unwanted pregnancies over the past 14 years.

Number of Nurses Who Smoke Is Down by More Than a Third - Health

The number of registered nurses in the United States who smoke fell by more than a third between 2003 and 2011, a new study shows.

Nurses spent the night at Pheobe to ensure patient care - WALB-TV Albany

Doctors at Phoebe Putney say the closure of many offices and schools kept people off the roads and reduced injuries.

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