Showing posts with label patient advocate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patient advocate. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Faced with a New Diagnosis? 10 tips to be your own best advocate, Martine Ehrenclou, @Med_writer #nurseup

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Faced with a New Diagnosis? 10 tips to be your own best advocate, +Martine Ehrenclou , @Med_writer:"You’re sitting in your physician’s ...
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...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Spinal Injury Recovery Foundation - Home

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The Need for Spinal Injury Recovery Foundation A family never plans on having a member severely injure their spine. While in intensive ca...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Long Term Care (LTC) Nurses on: The Nurse Friendly

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Checking Your Medical Records - More Important Than Ever Before

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Months ago, grand discussions of the shift from paper medical records to digital, electronic health and medical records, was all the rage. ...

Partnership for Patients - Win, Win, Win for American Healthcare

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It's called the Partnership for Patients .  (I like it already - it's focused on patients.)  It's a program being developed by...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Paul Parks (thelegalRN) on Twitter, California Legal Nursing Consultant (LNC)

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Paul Parks @thelegalRN California I am a RN with 23 years experience in trauma/surgery/ICU/CCU.I work as an Independent Legal ...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

How to Find the Best Hospital Near You - US News and World Report

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Some Americans are fortunate enough to live down the street from a world-class hospital. For them, where to go for highly skilled care is c...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Why Not The Best (Hospital Benchmark Data)

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Comparative Health Care Performance Data   See how well U.S. hospitals perform on measures of evidence-ba...

AIM: Adverse event reporting is on the rise

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Although the FDA 's Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) database has been in existence since 1969, more than half of the incidents ...

The Epidemic of Preventable Medical Harm, HealthcarePSI.org

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The Centers for Disease Control reports that 1.7 million people who enter the hospital this year - for any reason - will contract a Hospita...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Quality of Death and Dying in Patients who Request Physician-Assisted Death - Journal of Palliative Medicine

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Background: Physician-assisted death (PAD) was legalized in 1997 by Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (ODDA). Through 2009, 460 Oregonia...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: Rethinking Societal Attitudes About People Who Get Cancer

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In her 1978 book, " Illness as Metaphor ," Susan Sontag argued that societal myths and metaphors surrounding disease can kill. Ho...