Survey Finds that Automated Order Sets Deliver Benefits in Process Improvements, Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety

Process improvements, regulatory compliance and patient safety were the top three areas in which hospitals “greatly benefited” from the use of order set software, according to the findings of a recent independent national survey conducted on behalf of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students.
Of the hospital managers [...]

The nurses are leaving the profession

Kim at Emergiblog feels the way I used to feel about nursing. She loves taking care of patients and can’t picture doing anything else.
The difference between her and I is that I lost that feeling LONG AGO and discovered I was trapped in a profession that was a dead end.
Kim talks about the fact that [...]

Hot job as Practice Nurse in Medicspro Ltd.

Practice Nurse
Reference PN/01
Trust / Employer Medicspro Ltd.
City London
Location England/London All
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3-Zentiva accepts sweetened $2.6 bln Sanofi bid

Zentiva had been at the centre of competing takeover bids since May, when the drugmaker’s second largest shareholder, Czech financial group PPF, said it would bid 950 crowns per share.
The move prompted Sanofi, the largest shareholder with a 24.9 percent stake, to launch its own 1,050 crown a share bid in July.
Zentiva said the [...]

The nursing trio changed knees in unison, something like medicine’s answer to the Supremes.

The Idea of Love by Louise Dean is a wonderfully complex and original novel about desire, disappointment and mental illness, largely set in ex-pat Provence. Its principal characters, Richard and Valerie, Rachel and Jeff, live next door to each other, unhappily and with a great deal of anger and confusion. Life seems impossibly difficult for [...]