Nursing News - October 21, 2014

Nurses, University of Illinois Hospital reach pact

Nurses and administrators of the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago have reached a tentative agreement that ends the threat of a walkout. Members of the Illinois Nurses Association were scheduled to walk off the job Tuesday after an impasse over a new contract. - Read More

Expanded Neuro Intensive Care Unit At Westchester Medical Center Opens

As part of the 16-bed Neuro ICU expansion project, 14 new Neuro ICU beds are now open at Westchester Medical Center. The additional two ICU beds will be added by the end of the year. - Read More

Ebola monitoring period over for 43 Texans

Forty-three people who came into contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan are now officially cleared after not demonstrating any symptoms during a 21-day monitoring period, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Monday. One more will be cleared later Monday, and four others will complete their 21-day monitoring period soon, he said. - Read More

Cancer nurse numbers 'reach peak'

Macmillan has warned against complacency after research showed that around one in 10 people with cancer in England had not been assigned a cancer nurse The number of specialist adult cancer nurses in England has reached an all-time high, with more than 3,000 posts in the NHS, newly released figures show. In the last three years alone, 283 more specialist cancer nurses are now working in hospitals, meaning there are now more than 3,000 posts in the NHS, according to Macmillan Cancer Support, which has funded the census. - Read More

Ebola: Supportive care gives body time to fight the virus but not the only factor in survival

People who shared an apartment with the country's first Ebola patient are emerging from quarantine healthy. And while Thomas Eric Duncan died and two U.S. nurses were infected caring for him, there are successes, too: A nurse infected in Spain has recovered, as have four American aid workers infected in West Africa. - Read More

Obama coalition-building again, this time on Ebola

After rallying dozens of nations to join the fight against Islamic State militants, President Barack Obama is back in the coalition-building business - this time to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Obama is working the phones with world leaders, appealing to them via videoconference and publicly jawboning with one clear message: Stopping the deadly virus at its source is the single best way to prevent the outbreak from spreading. - Read More

Cuba takes large role in Ebola fight

At a field hospital in Havana, Cuban health workers learn how to treat patients with Ebola while keeping themselves safe. These doctors and nurses will soon join their colleagues in West Africa, on the front lines of the fight against the outbreak. - Read More

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