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Bed closures likely as nurses' pay frustration grows
Bed closures likely as nurses' pay frustration grows
posted by danieljohn 430 days 13 hours 4 minutes ago
BED closures will almost certainly hit Victoria's public hospital system within the next fortnight if the Brumby Government fails to improve its offer to the state's public sector nurses on wages and patient ratios.
Read more...Alice Waters, four cities join anti-bottled water campaign
Alice Waters, four cities join anti-bottled water campaign
posted by tnelson 421 days 9 hours 50 minutes ago
Cities around the nation are joining influential restaurateurs and activists in a public campaign to be launched Wednesday to convince consumers to choose tap water over bottles.
Read more...Children, like adults, have trouble keeping weight off once they lose it, study finds
Children, like adults, have trouble keeping weight off once they lose it, study finds
posted by tnelson 421 days 9 hours 46 minutes ago
Heavy children who lost weight kept the pounds off better through weight maintenance follow-up, but even that wasn't terribly successful over two years, researchers reported.
Read more...STD-treatment cost soars among young
STD-treatment cost soars among young
posted by tnelson 421 days 9 hours 45 minutes ago
Treating 15-to 24-year-olds for venereal disease in San Diego County cost about $110 million in 2005 – higher than every county in the state except Los Angeles, according to a report released yesterday.
Read more...Banked blood may lose chemical needed to supply oxygen
Banked blood may lose chemical needed to supply oxygen
posted by kmarshall 421 days 9 hours 25 minutes ago
Much of the stored blood given to millions of people every year may lack a component vital for it to deliver oxygen to the tissues.
Read more...Nurses to close hospital beds
Nurses to close hospital beds
posted by stephenhyatt 414 days 10 hours 10 minutes ago
VICTORIA'S nurses will close 25 percent of the state's public hospital beds and cancel one in four operations under work bans beginning at 7am (AEST) today over a wage claim.
Read more...Seton Family Of Hospitals Partners With Versant Advantage To Prepare New RN Grads For Clinical Competence
Seton Family Of Hospitals Partners With Versant Advantage To Prepare New RN Grads For Clinical Competence
posted by tnelson 412 days 16 hours 14 minutes ago
Versant Advantage, Inc., developers of the Versant RN Residency, recently announced that Seton Family of Hospitals has selected Versant’s evidence-based, outcome-driven education solution to enhance their nursing pipeline. The Versant RN Residency gives Seton a powerful recruitment tool that will increase the retention rate of new nurses and expand the training and staffing of acute care units, contributing to better patient outcomes.
Read more...Benefits Of Server And Storage Virtualization
Benefits Of Server And Storage Virtualization
posted by tnelson 412 days 16 hours 13 minutes ago
Most businesses have a combination of fibre-channel, SCSI, and/or NAS based storage. Storage systems are either directly attached to servers via SCSI or through fibre-channel. These systems participate natively or via a bridge in a fibre-channel based storage network, or are NAS systems attached directly to an Ethernet LAN.
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