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For sustained change and assurance of evading the forthcoming shortage, solutions must be developed in several areas: education, health care systems, policy and regulations, and image. This shortage is not exclusively a nursing issue, but will require a collaborative effort among nursing leaders, practitioners, health care executives, government, and the media.
Creating Cultures of Retention
The American [...]
Creative solutions dealing with the national nursing shortage crisis are popping up everywhere as states grapple with an inadequate nursing staff. A survey conducted by The Pennsylvania Department of Health indicated that 20 percent of current nurses would be looking to leave nursing within the next five years, while 24 percent stated they would be [...]
The state of Oklahoma recently posted the results from its Job Vacancy survey and was shocked to find that nursing is the highest-paying occupation with the most vacancies in the state, according to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. There were more than 2,200 vacancies for registered nurses. And RNs with a BSN or MSN were [...]
Medgenics (AIM:MEDG), is pleased to announce encouraging preliminary data for its Phase I/II clinical trial.
The landmark Phase I/II clinical trial of Medgenics’ EPODURE Biopump, for providing sustained treatment of anemia in subjects with chronic kidney disease, is underway. The current trial is designed to assess the safety and efficacy of the EPODURE Biopump in providing [...]
To help reduce diagnosis time for stroke, serious heart conditions and other life-threatening diseases, PinnacleHealth in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania will install the Aquilion® ONE dynamic volume CT system from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. The Aquilion ONE, the world’s first dynamic volume CT system, can help doctors diagnose life-threatening conditions in mere minutes, rather than the [...]
Hayes Management Consulting announced today that it will provide its MDaudit™ software to Lehigh Valley Physician Group (LVPG), affiliated with Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN) of Pennsylvania. The software automates administrative compliance audit tasks, improving audit productivity. MDaudit is currently in use at over forty large physician practices, including eight of the top [...]
Cephalon, Inc., (Nasdaq: CEPH - News) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved TREANDA® (bendamustine hydrochloride) for Injection for the treatment of patients with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) that has progressed during or within six months of treatment with rituximab or a rituximab-containing regimen. The data supporting the FDA [...]
Pennsylvania policymakers must close a growing hole in the state budget without jeopardizing critical investments in education, transportation, health care, and other core services, said Sharon Ward, director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center.
A day after Gov. Ed Rendell announced $311 million in spending cuts in response to a first-quarter state revenue shortfall, Ward [...]
Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]
Nurse Jennifer Dimmick helped her 71-year-old patient, George Mulligan, struggle from a chair to his feet for his daily walk around the corridor outside his hospital room.
In the days after Mulligan’s aortic valve replacement surgery, Dimmick was preparing him to care for himself after his discharge, showing him ways to lift himself while protecting his [...]
