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| Doctors Modesto RNs Win Major Gains In Pay, RN Protections, Patient Care Standards - California Nurses Association Registered nurses at Doctors Medical Center, Modesto have won substantial enhancements in compensation, patient care standards, and RN protections in a new tentative contract settlement, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee announced. The pact, which must be ratified by the nurses in upcoming membership meetings, affects 865 RNs at the hospital, which is part of the Tenet Healthcare system. medicalnewstoday.com |
A Key Question For The Uterine Muscles In Pregnancy: To Contract Or Not During pregnancy, the muscles of the uterus are relatively inactive. A switch to an activated state capable of strong contractions is therefore essential prior to the onset of labor. Kathleen Martin and colleagues, at Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, have now provided new insight into the events that prime the uterine muscles for contraction, something that they hope might have implications for the development of therapies for preterm labor (i.e. medicalnewstoday.com |
Pilot Study Removes Standard Hospital Bed As Focal Point Of Labor A University of Toronto pilot study that re-conceptualized the hospital labour room by removing the standard, clinical bed and adding relaxation-promoting equipment had a 28 per cent drop in infusions of artificial oxytocin, a powerful drug used to advance slow labours. The study, called PLACE (Pregnant and Labouring in an Ambient Clinical Environment) was published in the current edition of the journal Birth. medicalnewstoday.com |
March 4 Application Deadline Nears For Nursing Loan Repayment Program The Alabama Department of Public Health Office of Primary Care and Rural Health wants qualified nurses to be aware that they may be eligible for the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program. This federally funded program assists in the recruitment and retention of professional registered nurses in facilities with a critical nursing shortage in exchange for fulltime service... mnt.to |
Pensions Review 'Couldn't Come At A Worse Time', Says Royal College Of Nursing, UK The Royal College of Nursing recently (7 October) said that it was unfair to ask NHS staff to pay even more into their pensions when they will be subject to a two-year pay freeze, job cuts and a restructure of the NHS. The RCN was responding to the publication of the Independent Public Service Pensions Commission's Interim Report... mnt.to |