Showing posts with label hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospital. Show all posts
Saturday, December 7, 2013

#Medical-#Surgical Hospital, Acute Care Experience: Is it the best you can get to start your #nursing #career?

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#Medical-#Surgical Hospital, Acute Care Experience: Is it the best you can get to start your #nursing #career?:"Carmen Kosicek It used ...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Older Patients Discharged From the Hospital: 10 tips to prevent readmission. Martine Ehrenclou, @med_writer

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Older Patients Discharged From the Hospital: 10 tips to prevent readmission. Martine Ehrenclou, @med_writer:"There’s a 1 in 5 chance th...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Released hospital patients' many unhappy returns

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Patients who are released from the hospital too early or without proper planning and instructions often wind up back in the hospital after ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

CMS 30-minute rule for drug administration needs revision, ISMP.org

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In our June 17, 2010 newsletter, we covered a precarious topic best known as the “30-minute rule”—a requirement in the Centers for Medica...
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Saving Grace (Emergency Department Nurses)- LA Times Magazine

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“I heard a guttural scream,” Rich says, “and a man was handing me his lifeless son.” “How old?” I ask. “Nine months. We worked on h...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Nurse and Doctor, Neighbor and Friend By THERESA BROWN, R.N. - NYTimes.com

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“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” begins Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” about two neighbors who meet to repair the gaps a...
Monday, January 3, 2011

20 Iconic Nurses Every Nursing Student Should Study | Nursing Schools.net

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During your time in nursing school , you're bound to hear the names of countless famous and influential nurses thrown around. But if yo...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Study: Surgical Delays Have Profoundly Adverse Impact | National Nursing News

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A new study emphasizes why caregivers must work to minimize delays in certain elective surgical procedures for patients who have been admit...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

6 Tips to Survive Your First Year as a Hospital RN - Nursing Link

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The first year on the job is often the toughest for new nursing graduates, especially those who work in hospitals. In fact, new nurse grad...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Everything about medicine is now big business, KevinMD

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Med­i­cine used to be different. Doc­tors couldn’t do too much for you. They didn’t get paid very much and they were focused more on help...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Cancer patients die too often in hospitals, study says - The Boston Globe

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Researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project in Lebanon, N.H., analyzed the records of 235,821 Medicare patients ages 65 and older who died b...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Hospitals should not ban access to social media

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by Howard Luks, MD “Instead of focusing on treating him, an employee said, St. Mary nurses and other hospital staff did the unthinkable: ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Children's Hospital launches 'zero errors' initiative

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Reeling from the deaths of two children due to medication errors, the staff of Seattle Children's Hospital devoted Saturday to special ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Hospital care fatal for some Medicare patients - USATODAY.com

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An estimated 15,000 Medicare patients die each month in part because of care they receive in the hospital, says a government study release...
Monday, November 15, 2010

JAMA -- Abstract: Fall Prevention in Acute Care Hospitals: A Randomized Trial, November 3, 2010, Dykes et al. 304 (17): 1912

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 This Article ...