Nursing News

• Covid Pandemic Forces Families to Rethink Nursing Home Care
  
  Even with vaccines, many older people and their relatives are weighing how to manage at-home care for those who can no longer live independently.
  New York Times.  Saturday, 8 May 2021.
• Tokyo Olympics: World's oldest person pulls out of torch relay
  
  Kane Tanaka, 118, says she's worried about spreading Covid-19 to others in her nursing home.
  BBC News.  Thursday, 6 May 2021.
• Kate Middleton looks impeccably polished for a video call with Ugandan women's health expert
  
  Kate Middleton, 39, spoke to Ugandan midwife Harriet Nayiga for Nursing Times to mark the end of Nursing Now, the Duchess' global campaign to raise the status and profile of nursing.
  Daily Mail.  Wednesday, 5 May 2021.
• CNN's Jake Tapper keeps up Cuomo blackout on air while repeatedly tweeting about nursing home scandal
  
  CNN anchor Jake Tapper has now gone three days without mentioning the latest political woes of Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo despite repeatedly acknowledging them on Twitter.
  Fox News.  Saturday, 1 May 2021.
• CPS goes back on nursing mothers working remote, teachers union claims
  
  CTU said the school district went back on its word and has denied requests by nursing mothers to work remotely.
  ABC News.  Friday, 30 Apr 2021.
• 'Nursing assistant' arrested for killing four people by slashing their throats at German care centre
  
  The 51-year-old suspect is a nursing assistant who drove home after the killings at the clinic in Potsdam, near Berlin, and confessed them to her husband, local media reported.
  Daily Mail.  Thursday, 29 Apr 2021.
• Overcrowding in Illinois nursing homes led to preventable Latino, Black COVID-19 deaths, state officials say
  
  Overcrowding in Illinois nursing homes led to preventable Black and Latino COVID-19 deaths, state officials said Wednesday.
  ABC News.  Thursday, 29 Apr 2021.
• Janice Dean sees justice coming in Cuomo nursing home scandal: 'it's finally happening'
  
  Gov. Cuomo and his aides slighted state health officials by hiding the number of deaths in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new documents exposed by The New York Times.
  Fox News.  Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021.
• Cuomo Aides Repeatedly Stalled Release of Nursing Home Death Toll
  
  Aides to the New York governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, repeatedly prevented state health officials from releasing the number of nursing home deaths in the pandemic.
  New York Times.  Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021.
• Thousands of Federal Workers Will Be Paid a Minimum Wage of $15 an Hour as Soon as Next Year
  
  Federal workers from cleaners and nursing assistants to food service providers will be paid a minimum wage of $15 per hour in March.
  Entrepreneur.  Tuesday, 27 Apr 2021.
• Trump tweets meme mocking Biden as a nursing home resident
  
  President Trump has been trying to win the votes of seniors, but that didn't stop him from tweeting a meme seemingly mocking nursing home residents.
  CBS News.  Thursday, 15 Apr 2021.
• Royal College of Nursing urges members to reject 4% pay offer
  
  The RCN says nurses and health support workers deserve a 12.5% increase for their skills and experience.
  BBC News.  Friday, 2 Apr 2021.
• Covid Cases Drop 96% In Nursing Homes After Vaccine Rollout, Study Reports
  
  Deaths are also down over 90% since December.
  Forbes.  Tuesday, 30 Mar 2021.
• Oklahoma nursing home beheading threat
  
  An Oklahoma man is now in jail accused of threatening to behead a co-worker. Police say the threat was actually made nearly two weeks before the beheading attack in Moore, Oklahoma. KWTV's Karl Torp reports.
  CBS News.  Thursday, 25 Mar 2021.
• It Has Been One Year Since Cuomo Ordered Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients
  
  'A March 25th order should never be allowed again'
  Daily Caller.  Thursday, 25 Mar 2021.

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