Nursing - News February 24, 2014

Halifax area nurses vote 90 per cent in favour of strike action - Cape Breton Post

A strike vote held today saw nurses represented by the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union vote 90 per cent in favour of walking off the job to back their contract demands.

Alberta NDP says $1B in extra cash from Ottawa should go back into public care - Canada

Alberta's NDP says an extra $1 billion coming this year in federal health transfers is a rare opportunity to fix what acutely ails the system.

a Hospital trust has paid out a five-figure compensation sum in the wake of a four-year-old's death. - Daily Echo

Now it has been announced that the family of the youngster, of Bellfield, Fareham , who died in December 2010 on the hospital's High Dependency Unit, are to be paid a five-figure sum in compensation.

Survey praises the work of community nurses - Swindon Advertiser

THE WORK of and standard of care delivered by social entreprise SEQOL's community nurses in Swindon has been overwhelmingly praised by patients.

Violence alarms hospital nurses - The Mercury

Australian Nurses and Midwifery Federation state secretary Neroli Ellis says there has been an increase in violent incidents in mental health services at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

Deaths probe not needed - RCN chief - BBC News

The head of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales says an inquiry into death rates at Welsh hospitals is not needed.

Computerized checklist reduces type of hospital infection, Stanford/Packard study finds - EurekAlert!

A computerized safety checklist that automatically pulls information from patients' electronic medical records was associated with a threefold drop in rates of one serious type of hospital-acquired infection, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.

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