Nurses in Butler County will be picketing Monday, adding their voices to a growing call for change when it comes to violence against healthcare workers.
Workers will be doing informational picketing on Monday as they call for Independence Health System to increase safety measures, including having metal detectors at all of the entrances to Butler Memorial.
The nurses' union says there's only one at the emergency room, leaving two other entrances unguarded.
A spokesperson for the union says there has been an increase in violent incidents inside the hospital, including earlier this month when a nursing assistant had her teeth knocked out while on the job.
With nearly 39,000 nurses in Alabama expected to leave the profession in the next four years, the Alabama Board of Nursing discussed several topics Monday that they hope will recruit more nurses ahead of the looming workforce exodus.
Among the topics discussed included expanding an incentive program for nurse educators and revamping the Alabama Community College System’s Concept Based Nursing Curriculum, which was last updated in 2016.
A more precise form of prostate cancer surgery nearly doubles the chances of men retaining erectile function afterwards compared with standard surgery, according to the first comprehensive trial of the procedure. Doctors in five UK hospitals assessed the surgical approach that aims to preserve crucial nerves that run through the outer layer of the prostate and are thought to be responsible for producing erections.
A lawsuit filed earlier this month seeks to stop Atrium Health from taking control of organ donation services at partner hospital Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. For 40 years, Wake Forest Baptist relied on HonorBridge, an independent organ procurement organization that serves 75% of North Carolina, to handle the hospital's life-saving organ donations and get them to transplant recipients. But after joining the Atrium Health system, Wake Forest Baptist petitioned the federal government to switch to LifeShare Carolinas, Atrium's in-house organ procurement service.
Pointing to opportunities to conduct research and serve an aging population, Florida State University this week will seek approval to issue $413.9 million in bonds to build a hospital in Panama City Beach. The State University System's Board of Governors will be asked Wednesday to sign off on the bonds, after the Florida State University Board of Trustees meets earlier in the day on the issue.
Researchers are developing an injection that creates a contraceptive implant in the body using an approach that could herald a new way of delivering drugs over long periods of time. Current contraceptive implants last for years, meaning women do not have to take a pill every day, but the devices must be fitted by a trained professional via a small surgical procedure. Now scientists say they have completed proof-of-concept experiments for a new type of long-lasting implant that self-assembles in the body.