While it seems intuitive that nursing care should center on the patient, completing all the necessary clinical and administrative tasks sometimes takes precedence over listening to the patient and tailoring care to his or her priorities. Now many hospitals have launched initiatives to put the patient and family first in an effort to improve patient [...]

Nursing is a profession focused on advocacy in the care of individuals, families, and communities in attaining, maintaining, and recovering optimal health and functioning. Modern definitions of nursing describe it as a science and an art that focuses on promoting quality of life as defined by populations, communities, families, and individuals, throughout their life experiences [...]

With Thanksgiving and end-of-the-year holidays coming soon, many Americans will eat, drink and get heavier. It is a challenging season for those working to control and reverse our nation’s obesity epidemic.
Luckily this is an opportune time to remind everyone of the problem and discuss ideas and projects to combat obesity, especially in children, according to [...]

Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which operates the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, today announced that its board of directors has elected Pat Hemingway Hall as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective Nov. 1, 2008.
Hemingway Hall, who has served as HCSC’s president and chief operating officer [...]

Job summary: Changing the World…Through Discovery, Education and Care Imagine yourself as part of a team working with respected researchers to help define the optimal mode of treatment for various diseases…we’re waiting for you. We have positions open in various departments working on different research projects. INTERNAL APPLICANTS: Please be aware that your application may [...]

After more than a year with an interim dean, the UNM College of Nursing has hired Nancy Ridenour to step in as dean by the spring semester.
Ridenour is an adult nurse practitioner and served as a congressional staff member. She was one of 19 applicants for the position.
John A. Pieper, head of the search committee, [...]

UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
UT Southwestern Medical Center is part of The University of Texas System and is governed by the UT Board of Regents. UT Southwestern Medical Center aims at improving health care in the city of Dallas through innovation and education and to educate the next generation of leaders in patient care, biomedical science [...]

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, [...]

Homecoming race: The 31st annual McMurry 5000, McMurry University’s homecoming road race, will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday. Awards will be given to the top three men and the top three women, as well as to the top three finishers in eight age groups. The first 100 entrants will receive a long-sleeved T-shirt.
Preregistration is [...]

The following summarizes coverage of events and initiatives that seek to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
* Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma American Indian tribe a three-year, $1.5 million grant to go toward residential substance use treatments [...]