Nurses are the unsung heroes of the hospital who navigate crappy software on outdated hardware to keep you healthy ’ and it needs to stop. Executives from Cedar’s-Sinai and Kaiser ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nearly 13,000 healthcare employees at five University of California medical centers plan to strike on Tuesday in a move that threatens to back up emergency rooms ...
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Simon Zhang, data analyst and former neurosurgeon, reports that there are now one million doctors and nurses in the US using the social networking site.What are they doing? Looking for ...
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For generations, bad behavior by doctors has been explained away as an inevitable product of stress or tacitly accepted by administrators reluctant to take action. But that time-honored tolerance is ...
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For every nine women nurses working in hospitals, doctors’ offices and clinics, there’s one man doing the same job. That ratio might seem pretty small, but it’s a lot higher ...
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February 22, 2013 5:46 am by David Schultz | 0 Comments
Hospital administrators in Washington, D.C., are furiously lobbying against a bill modeled on a California law that would require them to maintain a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio at all times. Nursing unions ...
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February 15, 2013 8:06 pm by Veronica Combs | 3 Comments
An endocrinologist has a fresh twist on gamification in health education: give nurses the chance to win time off by answering questions about in-patient diabetes care.Dr. Bradley Eilerman said that ...
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A new initiative headed up by the Indiana Department of Labor is calling some attention to safety in healthcare facilities. Not patient safety though. It’s engaging businesses, labor and trade ...
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In the shift toward team-based healthcare, nurse practitioners and other non-MD healthcare professionals are taking on more responsibilities, and companies are responding with new resources and technologies to help them ...
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February 3, 2013 3:00 pm by Isger, Sonja | 0 Comments
The flu has charged through 17 Florida nursing homes and long-term care facilities this season, including two in Palm Beach County last month.While the flu can cause aches, fever and ...
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A nursing shortage is coming, and despite local efforts to prepare, it will be hard to stop.The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts the number of registered nursing positions will increase ...
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Here’s what we think we know about the influenza vaccine: it’s about 60 percent effective, and anyone working with patients should get it.But as more controversy unfolds around the mandatory ...
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Speaking of the Merck Health Innovation Fund …Merck & Co.’s strategic investment arm kicked off the year by leading a $20 million series C announced today by PatientSafe Solutions. The ...
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December 24, 2012 9:58 am by Stephanie Baum | 1 Comments
Games have arrived and earned their place in healthcare. They are used as a teaching tool for medical schools residents to translate ideas into practice, to teach empathy and to ...
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We prefer it when they’re the ones who give us our flu shots, and we’ll trust them to tell us what we’re supposed to do after leaving the hospital or ...
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