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Governor signs one hospital workplace safety bill, vetoes another (7 stories)

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Nursing News - October 1, 2014

The governor signed one bill imposing new requirements on hospitals for workplace violence plans. But he vetoed another bill which assumes hospital employees who get a difficult-to-treat staph infection got it at work, and would've entitled them to workers' comp coverage. - Read More

Targeted admission of medical and nursing students from rural areas could provide a solution to health worker shortage, which has been a mayor factor in the exacerbation of current Ebola outbreak in western Africa Nearly one third of medical and nursing students in developing countries may have no intention of working in their own countries after graduation, while less than one fifth of them intend to work in rural areas where they are needed most, according to a new study. Health workforce shortages have been a major factor driving the current outbreak of Ebola in western Africa. - Read More

GOAL is launching an emergency recruitment drive for 60 medical staff to help stop the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa. The aid agency is calling on doctors and nurses to staff Ebola treatment units in Liberia, where the US Government are to build healthcare facilities and train medical staff in a major step-up in their efforts to contain the virus. - Read More

NURSES, ambulance workers, porters, paramedics, occupational therapists, cooks and healthcare assistants are among workers walking out from 7-11am on Monday, October 13, over pay. A Musgrove Park Hospital nurse, who asked to remain anonymous, said staff were working harder than ever and rarely took scheduled breaks. - Read More

Pictured here is Jeffrey J. Tease presenting the Joan Bennett Tease Scholarship to Laura Richards, a first-year student at the Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing. The Joan Bennett Tease Scholarship in the amount of $1,000 was awarded to Laura Richards, a first-year student at the Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing at Beebe Healthcare. - Read More

CANCER patients can now receive their chemotherapy treatment from a special mobile unit after a donation from the charity Hope for Tomorrow. The eighth unit of its kind, unveiled yesterday at the Great Western Hospital , has been named Linda in memory of Wiltshire councillor Linda Conley, who lost her battle with cancer in October last year. - Read More

The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario is asking the provincial government for information on which hospitals are letting foreign patients pay for health care. The group says it filed a freedom of information request with the Ministry of Health and other branches of government on Monday for records regarding so-called medical tourism going back five years. - Read More

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