| Arizona Nursing Board Approves Recommendation Allowing Nurses To Perform First-Trimester Abortions The Arizona Board of Nursing on Wednesday voted to approve a recommendation from the board's Advance Practice Committee that nurse practitioners with special training be permitted to perform certain abortion procedures, Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Star reports. The board approved the recommendation with one dissent. medicalnewstoday.com |
National Award For Musgrove A&E Documentary, England Emergency Medics, the fly on the wall documentary about the Accident and Emergency Department at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton has won a national award for filmmaker Andrew Brown. The judges for the prestigious Medical Journalism Awards said the programme was "well filmed and utterly gripping. The programme flowed beautifully with the camera's leaving and returning to the action at just the right moments. medicalnewstoday.com |
Nursing Shortage Leads To More Students, New Training Programs "Long second shrift to other medical training, nursing education has taken on new relevance as the country faces a drastic shortage of nurses and a thin job market overall," The Dallas Morning News reports. "Colleges are quickly expanding their programs to encompass lengthy waiting lists. And (Texas) Gov. medicalnewstoday.com |
Florida Nurses Unite Feb. 17 In Tallahassee To Demand Lifesaving Patient Safety Improvements What Hundreds of registered nurses from across Florida will travel to Tallahassee this Feb. 16 and 17 to march, rally, and advocate for the new Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2010, introduced by Rep. Oscar Braynon (D-Miami Gardens) and Sen. Tony Hill (D- Jacksonville)... mnt.to |
N.Y.C. Council To Consider Strict Disclosure Requirements For Crisis-Pregnancy Centers; Nurses Plan Walkout At Oakland Hospital The Wall Street Journal: "The [New York] City Council plans to unveil legislation Tuesday that would establish strict disclosure requirements for crisis-pregnancy centers, some of which, abortion-rights advocates charge, deceive women into believing they're full-serve reproductive health facilities by masking their antiabortion agenda... mnt.to |