Reforming Care Delivery: How Will It Affect Your Nursing Career?

While no one knows whether Congress and the president will achieve comprehensive health care reform, nursing experts are convinced that, regardless of what happens in Washington, nurses will find greater career opportunities in the future.
From larger patient populations and greater demand to advances in telemedicine and more community-based, non-hospital careers, a number of factors are [...]

Nursing Shortage National Concern

Tens of thousands of hospital deaths every year can be blamed on a nationwide nursing shortage, according to a report released today by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
The private commission, which inspects and accredits hospitals, believes that a lack of nurses is to blame for thousands of deaths caused by problems [...]

Effects of the Nursing Shortage

A study published in the January/February 2006 journal Health Affairs provides new evidence that if hospitals invest in appropriate Registered Nurse (RN) staffing, thousands of lives and millions of dollars could be saved each year. Specifically, the study shows that if hospitals increased RN staffing and hours of nursing care per patient, more than 6,700 [...]

Flu Vaccination Rate At BJC HealthCare Rises Dramatically Due To Mandatory Policy

Making flu shots mandatory in 2008 dramatically increased the vaccination rate among St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare’s nearly 26,000 employees to more than 98 percent, according to a report now online in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The study’s lead author, infectious disease specialist Hilary Babcock, M.D., says the success of the mandatory program demonstrates it is [...]

Cancer Survivors Break Ground on Proton Therapy Center

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, [...]

Bone Solutions Inc. appoints orthopedic surgeon, Nancy Lynch, M.D., of Scale Venture Partners to its Scientific Advisory Board

Bone Solutions Inc. (BSI) announced today that it has appointed Nancy Lynch, M.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board, effective immediately. Dr. Lynch is a Principal with Scale Venture Partners, based in Foster City, Calif.
“This addition of Dr. Lynch to our SAB represents an important milestone for BSI, in light of Dr. Lynch’s stature as both [...]

Seminar for Haywood Regional Medical Center’s Nursing Grand Rounds

To understand the Cherokee people, one must first know the history of these Native Americans, said Quana Winstead, who works as a physician’s assistant at the Cherokee Diabetes Clinic. Winstead was the guest speaker for Haywood Regional Medical Center’s Nursing Grand Rounds seminar.
Indian flute music softly played while warm bowls of corn chowder and thick [...]

West Coast Ultrasound Institute

MISSION STATEMENT
West Coast Ultrasound Institute’s mission is to provide our students with a solid educational foundation in their field of study.
We are dedicated to giving students a well-balanced curriculum, divided between classroom, laboratory and supervised clinical training, taught in a supportive educational environment, by a highly qualified staff of professionals.
It is our responsibility to produce [...]

The Strangest Places for nurses

Who knew? I was only looking for a fun read, but what I discovered was a new nurse hero in literature. Her name is Madam Poppy Pomfrey, and she exists in all the Harry Potter novels. It was quite a surprise to me, really, for no one had mentioned a nurse in these extremely popular [...]

Medtronic And Scoliosis Research Society Provide Free Scoliosis Screening Kits To More Than 13,000 School Nurses

Medtronic and the Scoliosis Research Society launched Spine Check – a new program designed to help promote scoliosis screenings for middle school and junior high school students.
The Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), one of the world’s premier spine societies, and Medtronic are supporting the Spine Check program to help improve the overall spinal health of students. [...]