Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) announces a new partnership with the University of South Florida (USF) to provide simulation training and education services for USF Health hospital partners and for local and national health professionals seeking continuing medical education. The MSC SimSuite Education Center is located at Tampa General Hospital, a major teaching affiliate of USF [...]

SunOpta today provided an update on initiatives undertaken by the Company’s international sourcing and trading operations, specifically The Organic Corporation, operating as Tradin Organics. These initiatives expand SunOpta’s organic sourcing and supply capabilities in Ethiopia.
Recently Tradin Organics finalized a joint venture agreement, through the Dutch government’s Emerging Markets Cooperation Programme (PSOM), with an Ethiopian based [...]

Hypercom Corporation today announced that its medCompact is the first healthcare terminal to receive e-Health BCS approval from Gematik, the German healthcare organization. Starting next month, the device will be available in significant volumes as part of the introduction of the country’s new health card. Germany’s e-Health card program is one of the largest [...]

Hendersonville Lynn Blythe, RN, of Pardee Hospital’s Women & Children’s Center, was recently selected by her peers from across the state as one of the Great 100 Nurses of North Carolina for 2008.
The Great 100 (www.great100.org) is a grassroots peer recognition organization honoring the nursing profession in North Carolina. The organization annually acknowledges 100 North [...]

Before discussing nursing careers in general, one must first know what nursing itself is! The ANA (American Nurses Association) defines nursing as:
“Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in [...]