Nursing - News February 7, 2014

Inpatient day earns Big Thank You for Musgrove Park Hospital team - Somerset County Gazette

THE Surgical Admissions Team won January's Big Thank You award at Taunton 's Musgrove Park Hospital for their work in setting up an inpatient day case discharge area.

Company objects to Ind. ban on new skilled-nursing facilities - The Indianapolis Star

Carmel-based Mainstreet Property Group announced plans Thursday to build 24 skilled nursing properties with thousands of jobs over the next three years.

East Lancashire hospitals blasted for use of zero-hour contracts - Lancashire Telegraph

THE Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals have been criticised for their use of controversial zero-hours contracts, which have increased nearly five-fold in the last three years.

Hospital wards remain closed following norovirus outbreak - Ledbury Reporter

Only immediate family members are being allowed onto wards with no more than two people per person at each time.

Nursing panel cuts fired matron's NHS work ban to a year - South End Standard

A MATRON at Basildon Hospital - who was so bad bosses sacked her and disbanded her whole team - will be able to return to work within a year.

Columbia Nursing Research Finds US Hospitals Don't Follow Policies... - The Paramus Post

While most hospitals have polices in place to prevent health care-associated infections, clinicians often fail to follow evidence-based guidelines established to prevent these infections, according to new research from Columbia University School of Nursing published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Kristin Olsen wants audit of California licensing boards' computer system - Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Problems with a new state nurse-licensing system have prompted so many complaints from nursing school graduates and hospital administrators that a state Assembly member has called for an audit of the project to figure out what has gone wrong.

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